A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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... Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing
to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : De Charles Dexter Cleveland. SIR
THOMAS OVERBURY . Prose Writings . . . . . . . . . A Fair and Happy Milkmaid .
... Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing
to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : De Charles Dexter Cleveland. SIR
THOMAS OVERBURY . Prose Writings . . . . . . . . . A Fair and Happy Milkmaid .
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The gret Kyng hathe every day , 50 fair Damyseles , alle Maydenes , that serven
him everemore at his Mete . And whan he is at the Table , thei bryngen him hys
Mete at every tyme , 5 and 5 to gedre . And in bryngynge hire10 Servyse , thei ...
The gret Kyng hathe every day , 50 fair Damyseles , alle Maydenes , that serven
him everemore at his Mete . And whan he is at the Table , thei bryngen him hys
Mete at every tyme , 5 and 5 to gedre . And in bryngynge hire10 Servyse , thei ...
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Of her array the form gif I shall write , Toward her golden hair and rich attire , In
fret - wise couch ' d 2 with pearlis white , And greaté balas3 lemyng4 as the fire ,
With many an emerant and fair sapphíre , And on her head a chaplet fresh of hue
...
Of her array the form gif I shall write , Toward her golden hair and rich attire , In
fret - wise couch ' d 2 with pearlis white , And greaté balas3 lemyng4 as the fire ,
With many an emerant and fair sapphíre , And on her head a chaplet fresh of hue
...
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And when she walked had a little thraw Under the sweete greene boughis bent ,
Her fair fresh face , as white as any snaw , She turned has , and furth her wayis
went ; But tho began mine aches and torment , To see her part and follow I na ...
And when she walked had a little thraw Under the sweete greene boughis bent ,
Her fair fresh face , as white as any snaw , She turned has , and furth her wayis
went ; But tho began mine aches and torment , To see her part and follow I na ...
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And these damsels , when they came unto age , became so fair that it was
wonder . Whereof Dioclesian anon let make a summoning , and commanded by
his letters , that all the kings that held of him , should come at a certain day , as in
his ...
And these damsels , when they came unto age , became so fair that it was
wonder . Whereof Dioclesian anon let make a summoning , and commanded by
his letters , that all the kings that held of him , should come at a certain day , as in
his ...
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| Title | A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms ... |
| Author | Charles Dexter Cleveland |
| Publisher | E.C. and J. Biddle, 1852 |
| Length | 776 pages |
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