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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Page 82
... never prevent him with earliness , nor the moon , with her sober countenance , dissuade him from watching till midnight for the deers ' feeding . O , said he , you will never live to my age , without you keep your- self in breath with ...
... never prevent him with earliness , nor the moon , with her sober countenance , dissuade him from watching till midnight for the deers ' feeding . O , said he , you will never live to my age , without you keep your- self in breath with ...
Page 84
... never were in nature , as the heroes , demigods , cyclops , chimeras , furies , and such like , so as he goeth hand in hand with nature , not enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts , but freely ranging within the zodiac of his ...
... never were in nature , as the heroes , demigods , cyclops , chimeras , furies , and such like , so as he goeth hand in hand with nature , not enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts , but freely ranging within the zodiac of his ...
Page 89
... never wipe off . There was not a particle of evidence at his trial that this pious and accomplished poet meditated any evil designs against the govern- He did what he had a perfect right to do ; ay , what it was his duty to do , if he ...
... never wipe off . There was not a particle of evidence at his trial that this pious and accomplished poet meditated any evil designs against the govern- He did what he had a perfect right to do ; ay , what it was his duty to do , if he ...
Page 92
... never faileth , but the sun of justice draweth it up , and upon what face soever it droppeth , it maketh it amiable in God's eye . For this water hath thy heart been long a limbeck , sometimes distill- ing it out of the weeds of thy own ...
... never faileth , but the sun of justice draweth it up , and upon what face soever it droppeth , it maketh it amiable in God's eye . For this water hath thy heart been long a limbeck , sometimes distill- ing it out of the weeds of thy own ...
Page 112
... never mair came hame . The ladyes wrang their fingers white , - The maidens tore their hair ; A ' for the sake of their true loves , - For them they'll see na mair . O lang lang may the ladyes sit , Wi ' their fans into their hand ...
... never mair came hame . The ladyes wrang their fingers white , - The maidens tore their hair ; A ' for the sake of their true loves , - For them they'll see na mair . O lang lang may the ladyes sit , Wi ' their fans into their hand ...
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