Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... whole of the sacred history . We are told that he was con- tinually occupied in repeating to himself what he heard , and , " like a clean animal , ruminating it , he turned it into most sweet verse . ' " † Cædmon thus composed many ...
... whole of the sacred history . We are told that he was con- tinually occupied in repeating to himself what he heard , and , " like a clean animal , ruminating it , he turned it into most sweet verse . ' " † Cædmon thus composed many ...
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... whole style of this composition , which is broken into a series of short unconnected sentences , and in which the construction is as plain and artless as possible , and perfectly free from inversions , ap- pears to indicate that little ...
... whole style of this composition , which is broken into a series of short unconnected sentences , and in which the construction is as plain and artless as possible , and perfectly free from inversions , ap- pears to indicate that little ...
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... whole and plein 9 Yet aye beware of doubleness . Fortunés wheel go'th round about A thousand timés day and night , Whose course standeth ever in doubt For to transmuel0 she is so light , For which adverteth in your sight Th ' untrust of ...
... whole and plein 9 Yet aye beware of doubleness . Fortunés wheel go'th round about A thousand timés day and night , Whose course standeth ever in doubt For to transmuel0 she is so light , For which adverteth in your sight Th ' untrust of ...
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... whole withouten rotting . But I trow that fiends made them seem to be so whole , withouten rotting . But that might not be to my avys , that so many should have entered so newly , ne so many newly slain , without stinking and rotting ...
... whole withouten rotting . But I trow that fiends made them seem to be so whole , withouten rotting . But that might not be to my avys , that so many should have entered so newly , ne so many newly slain , without stinking and rotting ...
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... whole summer's day ; I will learn Latin , Hebrew , Greek , and French , And I will learn Dutch sitting on my bench . I do fear no man , each man feareth me ; I overcome my adversaries by land and by sea : I had no peer if to myself I ...
... whole summer's day ; I will learn Latin , Hebrew , Greek , and French , And I will learn Dutch sitting on my bench . I do fear no man , each man feareth me ; I overcome my adversaries by land and by sea : I had no peer if to myself I ...
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