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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... light his candle , is described with great humor . The Gammer's boy says : - -Gammer , if ye will laugh , look in but at the door , And see how Hodge lieth tombling and tossing amids the floor , Raking there , some fire to find among ...
... light his candle , is described with great humor . The Gammer's boy says : - -Gammer , if ye will laugh , look in but at the door , And see how Hodge lieth tombling and tossing amids the floor , Raking there , some fire to find among ...
Page 87
... light ; A rosy garland , and a weary head ; And if these things , as being thine by right , Move not thy heavy grace , thou shalt in me , Livelier than elsewhere Stella's image see . CHRISTOPHER MARLOW . 1562-1592 . CHRISTOPHER MARLOW2 ...
... light ; A rosy garland , and a weary head ; And if these things , as being thine by right , Move not thy heavy grace , thou shalt in me , Livelier than elsewhere Stella's image see . CHRISTOPHER MARLOW . 1562-1592 . CHRISTOPHER MARLOW2 ...
Page 96
... light did hide , Not perceable with power of any starr : And all within were pathes and alleies wide , 1 Earne - yearn . 2 Whimpled - gathered , or plaited . 8 Forwasted - much wasted . The prefix for is an intensive , from the Saxon ...
... light did hide , Not perceable with power of any starr : And all within were pathes and alleies wide , 1 Earne - yearn . 2 Whimpled - gathered , or plaited . 8 Forwasted - much wasted . The prefix for is an intensive , from the Saxon ...
Page 102
... light : And on his head a girlond well beseene He wore , from which , as he had chauffed " been , The sweat did drop ; and in his hand he bore A bowe and shaftes , as he in forrest greene 1 Lap - entwine themselves . 5 Gilded . 2 ...
... light : And on his head a girlond well beseene He wore , from which , as he had chauffed " been , The sweat did drop ; and in his hand he bore A bowe and shaftes , as he in forrest greene 1 Lap - entwine themselves . 5 Gilded . 2 ...
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... and hard ytanned skin : The morrow gray no sooner hath begun To spread his light e'en peeping in our eyes , But he is up , and to his work yrun ; But let the night's black misty mantles rise , And 1603-1625 . ] 123 SACKVILLE .
... and hard ytanned skin : The morrow gray no sooner hath begun To spread his light e'en peeping in our eyes , But he is up , and to his work yrun ; But let the night's black misty mantles rise , And 1603-1625 . ] 123 SACKVILLE .
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