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Her yellow hair was fair - attired , Mid rich string of gold , wired ; It helid ( j ) her
abouten all To her gentil middle small : ( a ) A saddle - cloth , or housing . Fr . ( 6 )
Orfrais , aurifrigium , is gold embroidery . ( c ) Organs , cymbals , and all sorts of ...
Her yellow hair was fair - attired , Mid rich string of gold , wired ; It helid ( j ) her
abouten all To her gentil middle small : ( a ) A saddle - cloth , or housing . Fr . ( 6 )
Orfrais , aurifrigium , is gold embroidery . ( c ) Organs , cymbals , and all sorts of ...
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Bright and sheen was her face ; Every fair - head in her was . In this same old
romance , in which the manners of chivalry are constantly ingrafted on classical
his . tory , is found the well - known couplet in its true reading :Merry swithe it is in
...
Bright and sheen was her face ; Every fair - head in her was . In this same old
romance , in which the manners of chivalry are constantly ingrafted on classical
his . tory , is found the well - known couplet in its true reading :Merry swithe it is in
...
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The following description of Wallace ' s bivouac , though not in the boldest style of
the Blind Bard , may challenge comparison with any composition of his age ; the
spelling has been considerably mod . ernised :Into a vale , by a small river fair ...
The following description of Wallace ' s bivouac , though not in the boldest style of
the Blind Bard , may challenge comparison with any composition of his age ; the
spelling has been considerably mod . ernised :Into a vale , by a small river fair ...
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Now was ther made , fast by the touris wall , A garden fair ; and in the corners set
An herber green , with wandis long and small Railed about , and so with treeis
set Was all the place , and hawthorn hedges knet ; That life was none [ a ]
walking ...
Now was ther made , fast by the touris wall , A garden fair ; and in the corners set
An herber green , with wandis long and small Railed about , and so with treeis
set Was all the place , and hawthorn hedges knet ; That life was none [ a ]
walking ...
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Of her array the form if I shall write , Toward her golden hair and rich attire , In fret
- wise couched with pearlis white , And greate balas ( a ) lemyng ( 6 ) as the fire ,
With many an emerald and fair saphire , And , on her head a chaplet fresh of ...
Of her array the form if I shall write , Toward her golden hair and rich attire , In fret
- wise couched with pearlis white , And greate balas ( a ) lemyng ( 6 ) as the fire ,
With many an emerald and fair saphire , And , on her head a chaplet fresh of ...
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| Title | Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
| Author | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Editor | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Contributor | Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Publisher | Oliver & Boyd, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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