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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... speak of it properly , for I was not there : it is far beyond , but as I have heard say of wise men , it is on the highest part of the earth , nigh to the circle of the moon . " So popular were his travels , that of no book , with the ...
... speak of it properly , for I was not there : it is far beyond , but as I have heard say of wise men , it is on the highest part of the earth , nigh to the circle of the moon . " So popular were his travels , that of no book , with the ...
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... speak the word of God in all languages that were ordained of God under heaven , as it is written . MATTHEW , CHAP . V.1 And Jhesus seynge the peple , went up into an hil ; and whanne he was sett , his disciplis camen to him . And he ...
... speak the word of God in all languages that were ordained of God under heaven , as it is written . MATTHEW , CHAP . V.1 And Jhesus seynge the peple , went up into an hil ; and whanne he was sett , his disciplis camen to him . And he ...
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... proposed . At length he came to a large tree , under which sat an old woman most ugly to view- That for to speak of flesh and bone So foul yet saw he never none . Our hero was riding by briskly , when she called 1399-1413 . ] 35 GOWER .
... proposed . At length he came to a large tree , under which sat an old woman most ugly to view- That for to speak of flesh and bone So foul yet saw he never none . Our hero was riding by briskly , when she called 1399-1413 . ] 35 GOWER .
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... speak thereof I dread . In her was youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richess , and womanly feature ; God better wote than my pen can report : Wisdom , largéss , estate , and cunning sure , In every point so guided her ...
... speak thereof I dread . In her was youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richess , and womanly feature ; God better wote than my pen can report : Wisdom , largéss , estate , and cunning sure , In every point so guided her ...
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... speak : A grave for tyrants then was made- M'CREERY . Then crack'd the chain which yet shall break . ELLIOT . THE name of William Caxton will ever be held in grateful remembrance by the world of letters , for he it was who introduced ...
... speak : A grave for tyrants then was made- M'CREERY . Then crack'd the chain which yet shall break . ELLIOT . THE name of William Caxton will ever be held in grateful remembrance by the world of letters , for he it was who introduced ...
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