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 21
... unto the Firmament ; be grettere resoun , the Erthe and the See , that ben so grete and so hevy , scholde fallen to the Firma- ment : but that may not be . JOHN WICLIF . 1324-1384 . JOHN WICLIF , the Morning Star of the Reformation ...
... unto the Firmament ; be grettere resoun , the Erthe and the See , that ben so grete and so hevy , scholde fallen to the Firma- ment : but that may not be . JOHN WICLIF . 1324-1384 . JOHN WICLIF , the Morning Star of the Reformation ...
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... unto logic haddé long ygo.3 As leané was his horse as is a rake , And he was not right fat I undertake , But looked hollow , and thereto soberly . Full threadbare was his overest courtepy ; For he had gotten him yet no benefice , Nor ...
... unto logic haddé long ygo.3 As leané was his horse as is a rake , And he was not right fat I undertake , But looked hollow , and thereto soberly . Full threadbare was his overest courtepy ; For he had gotten him yet no benefice , Nor ...
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... unto Londón unto Saint Poule's To seeken him a chantery9 for souls , Or with a brotherhood to be withold ; 10 But dwelt at home and kepté well his fold , So that the wolf ne made it not miscarry ; He was a shepherd and no mercenary ; As ...
... unto Londón unto Saint Poule's To seeken him a chantery9 for souls , Or with a brotherhood to be withold ; 10 But dwelt at home and kepté well his fold , So that the wolf ne made it not miscarry ; He was a shepherd and no mercenary ; As ...
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... unto her chin , Her lippes shrunken ben for age ; There was no grace in her viságe . She insists , however , that he shall comply with the terms of agreement , and therefore , sick at heart , and almost preferring death , 1 Low flat . 2 ...
... unto her chin , Her lippes shrunken ben for age ; There was no grace in her viságe . She insists , however , that he shall comply with the terms of agreement , and therefore , sick at heart , and almost preferring death , 1 Low flat . 2 ...
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... unto see . But poor Florent must take her for better for worse , though the worse seemed then rather to predominate . The company are all assembled , and the bride and bridegroom stand up to be united in the holy bonds of matrimony ...
... unto see . But poor Florent must take her for better for worse , though the worse seemed then rather to predominate . The company are all assembled , and the bride and bridegroom stand up to be united in the holy bonds of matrimony ...
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