Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Pressent, Volume 1Charles Townsend Copeland Scribner's, 1931 - American literature |
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... Nature hath with sovereyn diligence I - formed hir in so gret excellence , As though sche wolde say , ' Lo , I , Nature , Thus can I forme and peynte a creature , Whan that me lust ; who can me counter- fete ? ' Sire knight , ' quoth he ...
... Nature hath with sovereyn diligence I - formed hir in so gret excellence , As though sche wolde say , ' Lo , I , Nature , Thus can I forme and peynte a creature , Whan that me lust ; who can me counter- fete ? ' Sire knight , ' quoth he ...
Page 88
... nature . But yet without praying in aid of alchymists , there is a manifest image of this in the ordinary course of nature . For in bodies , union strengtheneth and cherisheth any natural action ; and on the other side weakeneth and ...
... nature . But yet without praying in aid of alchymists , there is a manifest image of this in the ordinary course of nature . For in bodies , union strengtheneth and cherisheth any natural action ; and on the other side weakeneth and ...
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... nature might not have been misinterpreted ; yet , from a person of so perfect a habit of generous and obsequious compliance with all good men , might very well have been interpreted by the king as more than an ordinary averseness to his ...
... nature might not have been misinterpreted ; yet , from a person of so perfect a habit of generous and obsequious compliance with all good men , might very well have been interpreted by the king as more than an ordinary averseness to his ...
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