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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226 Version of Twenty - third Psalm . . . . . . . 194 Hymn to Light . . . . . . . 227 His
Prose Works . . . . . . . . . . . PHINEAS FLETCIIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 On Myself . .
. . . . . . . Account of the Purple Island . . . . . . . . 195 The Pleasures of a Country Life
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226 Version of Twenty - third Psalm . . . . . . . 194 Hymn to Light . . . . . . . 227 His
Prose Works . . . . . . . . . . . PHINEAS FLETCIIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 On Myself . .
. . . . . . . Account of the Purple Island . . . . . . . . 195 The Pleasures of a Country Life
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243 Scene from Comus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 THOMAS BROWNE . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 298 Invocation to Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 His various Works . . . Eve '
s Account of her Creation . . . . . . . 253 Thoughts on Death and Immortality .
243 Scene from Comus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 THOMAS BROWNE . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 298 Invocation to Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 His various Works . . . Eve '
s Account of her Creation . . . . . . . 253 Thoughts on Death and Immortality .
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Ye ben light of the world , a citee set on an hill may not be hid . Ne men teendith
not a lanterne and puttith it undir a bushel : but on a candilstik that it give light to
alle that ben in the hous . So , schyne your light bifore men , that thei see youre ...
Ye ben light of the world , a citee set on an hill may not be hid . Ne men teendith
not a lanterne and puttith it undir a bushel : but on a candilstik that it give light to
alle that ben in the hous . So , schyne your light bifore men , that thei see youre ...
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He was about to draw her unto himself - when she stopped him , And sayth , that
for to win or lose He mote one of two thinges choose , Wherl he will have her
such o ' night Or elles upon daye ' s light ; For he shall not have bothé two .
He was about to draw her unto himself - when she stopped him , And sayth , that
for to win or lose He mote one of two thinges choose , Wherl he will have her
such o ' night Or elles upon daye ' s light ; For he shall not have bothé two .
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And although glory and honest name are not the very ends wherefore these
things are to be followed , yet surely they must needs follow them as light
followeth fire , though it were kindled for warmth . Out of these things the chiefest
and ...
And although glory and honest name are not the very ends wherefore these
things are to be followed , yet surely they must needs follow them as light
followeth fire , though it were kindled for warmth . Out of these things the chiefest
and ...
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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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