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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But when he had to describe the locality of Paradise , he fairly acknowledges that
he “ cannot 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 ...
But when he had to describe the locality of Paradise , he fairly acknowledges that
he “ cannot 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 ...
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... speaks - ( that voice which walks upon the wind , Though seldom heard by
busy human kind : ) As thou these ashes , little brook , wilt bear Into the Avon -
Avon to the tide or Severn - Severn to the narrow seasInto main ocean they - -
this ...
... speaks - ( that voice which walks upon the wind , Though seldom heard by
busy human kind : ) As thou these ashes , little brook , wilt bear Into the Avon -
Avon to the tide or Severn - Severn to the narrow seasInto main ocean they - -
this ...
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... her tissue white , That goodlier had not been seen to - forrow , 12 As I suppose
; and girt she was a lyte ; 13 Thus halfling 14 loose for haste , to such delight It
was to see her youth in goodlihead , That , for rudenéss , to speak thereof I dread
.
... her tissue white , That goodlier had not been seen to - forrow , 12 As I suppose
; and girt she was a lyte ; 13 Thus halfling 14 loose for haste , to such delight It
was to see her youth in goodlihead , That , for rudenéss , to speak thereof I dread
.
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Lord I taught by thee , when CAXTON bade His silent words for ever speak : A
grave for tyrants then was madeThen crack ' d the chain which yet shall break .
ELLIOT . The name of William Caxton will ever be held in grateful remembrance
by ...
Lord I taught by thee , when CAXTON bade His silent words for ever speak : A
grave for tyrants then was madeThen crack ' d the chain which yet shall break .
ELLIOT . The name of William Caxton will ever be held in grateful remembrance
by ...
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Before that I will speak of Brute , 4 it shall be shewed how the land of England
was first named Albion , and by what enchesons it was so named . Of the noble
land of Syria , there was a royal king and mighty , and a man of great renown ,
that ...
Before that I will speak of Brute , 4 it shall be shewed how the land of England
was first named Albion , and by what enchesons it was so named . Of the noble
land of Syria , there was a royal king and mighty , and a man of great renown ,
that ...
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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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