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... contain a knife , or possibly a " penner or pen - case . The expression of the countenance is in- telligent ; but the fire of the eye seems quenched , and evident marks of advanced age appear on the countenance . A deduction from the ...
... contain a knife , or possibly a " penner or pen - case . The expression of the countenance is in- telligent ; but the fire of the eye seems quenched , and evident marks of advanced age appear on the countenance . A deduction from the ...
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... way by the work of Thomas Tyrwhitt , whose great edition of The Canterbury Tales was brought out in 1775 , and was followed by a fifth The volume containing a glossary in 1778. Tyrwhitt was to Chaucer 26 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... way by the work of Thomas Tyrwhitt , whose great edition of The Canterbury Tales was brought out in 1775 , and was followed by a fifth The volume containing a glossary in 1778. Tyrwhitt was to Chaucer 26 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe. volume containing a glossary in 1778. Tyrwhitt was to Chaucer what Theobald was to Shakespeare and Spedding to Bacon - one of the few great English editors ; like Steevens and Malone , he ...
Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe. volume containing a glossary in 1778. Tyrwhitt was to Chaucer what Theobald was to Shakespeare and Spedding to Bacon - one of the few great English editors ; like Steevens and Malone , he ...
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... containing a prologue , seven books on seven deadly sins , and one on the duties of a king - in all over thirty thousand eight- syllabled rhymed lines - first printed by Caxton in 1483 . The ravages of the seven sins , Pride , Envy ...
... containing a prologue , seven books on seven deadly sins , and one on the duties of a king - in all over thirty thousand eight- syllabled rhymed lines - first printed by Caxton in 1483 . The ravages of the seven sins , Pride , Envy ...
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... containing The Bowge , Phyllyp Sparowe , Colin Cloute , and Why come ye not to Court ? ( ed . W. H. Williams ) , appeared in 1902. A fresh edition ( which is a desideratum ) is understood to be in contemplation by A. F. Pollard for the ...
... containing The Bowge , Phyllyp Sparowe , Colin Cloute , and Why come ye not to Court ? ( ed . W. H. Williams ) , appeared in 1902. A fresh edition ( which is a desideratum ) is understood to be in contemplation by A. F. Pollard for the ...
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Page 98 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Page 400 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 361 - Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
Page 240 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Page 182 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes...
Page 165 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Page 222 - This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 382 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me...
Page 249 - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth and overseen his owne writings; but since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right...
Page 217 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.