The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Harper, 1851 - 576 pages |
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... flowers and the groves alike high , All green and white was nothing else seen . Immediately after the return of Edward from the invasion of France , that monarch appointed Chaucer to the important and responsible post of collector of ...
... flowers and the groves alike high , All green and white was nothing else seen . Immediately after the return of Edward from the invasion of France , that monarch appointed Chaucer to the important and responsible post of collector of ...
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... Flower and Leaf , a spirited and graceful allegorical poem , The House of Fame , and Troilas and Cresseide ; from the latter of which we quote the following passages chiefly for the sake of the delicate and beautiful similes which they ...
... Flower and Leaf , a spirited and graceful allegorical poem , The House of Fame , and Troilas and Cresseide ; from the latter of which we quote the following passages chiefly for the sake of the delicate and beautiful similes which they ...
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... flower That ever I saw , methought , before that hour , For which sudden abate , anon astart , 2 The blood of all my ... flowers as they stand ? What shall I think , alas ! what reverence Shall I mister5 unto your excellence ? If ye a ...
... flower That ever I saw , methought , before that hour , For which sudden abate , anon astart , 2 The blood of all my ... flowers as they stand ? What shall I think , alas ! what reverence Shall I mister5 unto your excellence ? If ye a ...
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... flower jonets , 6 And other of shape , like to the flower jonets ; And above all this , there was , well I wot , Beauty enough to make a world to doat . About her neck , white as the fire amail , " A goodly chain of small orfevory , 8 ...
... flower jonets , 6 And other of shape , like to the flower jonets ; And above all this , there was , well I wot , Beauty enough to make a world to doat . About her neck , white as the fire amail , " A goodly chain of small orfevory , 8 ...
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... flowers , Or emmets travelling into June ; Some under wrocht , and some aboon , With strang ingenious masonry , Upward their work did fortify ; The land about was fair and plain , And it rase like ane heich montane . Those fulish people ...
... flowers , Or emmets travelling into June ; Some under wrocht , and some aboon , With strang ingenious masonry , Upward their work did fortify ; The land about was fair and plain , And it rase like ane heich montane . Those fulish people ...
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