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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For , if worldly clerks look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find ,
that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English
, either common language of this land , in his time . And not only Bede , but king ...
For , if worldly clerks look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find ,
that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English
, either common language of this land , in his time . And not only Bede , but king ...
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... are such as look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honor the
Leaf , which abideth with the root , notwithstanding the winter storms and frosts ,
are they which follow virtue and true merit , without regarding worldly respects .
... are such as look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honor the
Leaf , which abideth with the root , notwithstanding the winter storms and frosts ,
are they which follow virtue and true merit , without regarding worldly respects .
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Therefore , all this business of hunting is , among the Utopians , turned over to
their butchers ; and they look on hunting as one of the basest parts of a butcher ' s
work . " OF LAWS AND LAWYERS . “ They have but few. 1 So graphic is Sir ...
Therefore , all this business of hunting is , among the Utopians , turned over to
their butchers ; and they look on hunting as one of the basest parts of a butcher ' s
work . " OF LAWS AND LAWYERS . “ They have but few. 1 So graphic is Sir ...
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Rome thunder ' d death , but Tyndale ' s dauntless eye Look ' d in death ' s face
and smiled , death standing by . In spite of Rome , for England ' s faith he stood ,
And in the flames he seal ' d it with his blood . It rests on indubitable evidence that
...
Rome thunder ' d death , but Tyndale ' s dauntless eye Look ' d in death ' s face
and smiled , death standing by . In spite of Rome , for England ' s faith he stood ,
And in the flames he seal ' d it with his blood . It rests on indubitable evidence that
...
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A face that should content me wond ' rous well , Should not be fair , 3 but lovely to
behold ; With gladsome chere , all grief for to expell ; With sober looks so would I
that it should Speak without words , such words as none can tell. 1 Dr . Nott ...
A face that should content me wond ' rous well , Should not be fair , 3 but lovely to
behold ; With gladsome chere , all grief for to expell ; With sober looks so would I
that it should Speak without words , such words as none can tell. 1 Dr . Nott ...
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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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