Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1871 - English literature |
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... Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 Time's Alteration , 230 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined , 231 · Description of Night in a Camp , 188 The Blessings of a Shepherd's ...
... Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 Time's Alteration , 230 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined , 231 · Description of Night in a Camp , 188 The Blessings of a Shepherd's ...
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... court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar with different modes of life both at home and abroad , and openly patron- ised by his sovereign - to give literary permanence and consistency to the ...
... court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar with different modes of life both at home and abroad , and openly patron- ised by his sovereign - to give literary permanence and consistency to the ...
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... court . The poet fled to Hainault ( the country of his wife's relations ) , and afterwards to Holland . He ventured to return in 1386 , but was thrown into the Tower , and deprived of his comp- trollership . In May 1388 , he obtained ...
... court . The poet fled to Hainault ( the country of his wife's relations ) , and afterwards to Holland . He ventured to return in 1386 , but was thrown into the Tower , and deprived of his comp- trollership . In May 1388 , he obtained ...
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... court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand green , And said soon , Scot , Martin's fish we wald have ! ' Wallace meekly again answer him gave . 6 It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith should ...
... court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand green , And said soon , Scot , Martin's fish we wald have ! ' Wallace meekly again answer him gave . 6 It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith should ...
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... Court of Common Pleas , the Court of Chancery , and Westminster Hall . The London Lyckpenny . Within the hall , neither rich , nor yet poor Would do for me ought , although I should die : Which seeing , I gat me out of the door , Where ...
... Court of Common Pleas , the Court of Chancery , and Westminster Hall . The London Lyckpenny . Within the hall , neither rich , nor yet poor Would do for me ought , although I should die : Which seeing , I gat me out of the door , Where ...
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afterwards Anglo-Saxon anon beauty Ben Jonson Cædmon Cæsar called Canterbury Tales Chaucer coude court dance death delight doth dread Earl England English eyes Faery Queen fair Fawdon fear flowers frae GEOFFREY CHAUCER Geoffrey of Monmouth give gold grace gude hand hast hath heard heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour Jack Cade JOHN king lady language Latin Layamon learned live look Lord merry micht mind mony nature never night noble Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor prose Queen quoth reign rich richt Robert Curthose saith Saracens Scotland Shakspeare sing song soul sould Discretion Spenser St Serf sweet tell thee ther thine thing thou thought tongue translation unto verse wald Wallace wanton wassail weel Wickliffe wind withouten words writers youth