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... worthy of admiration , or a picture or a statue we could look at without shame . " It would be far too much to assert this of books ; but certainly Teutonic England could not have risen to the full grandeur and beauty of that expression ...
... worthy of admiration , or a picture or a statue we could look at without shame . " It would be far too much to assert this of books ; but certainly Teutonic England could not have risen to the full grandeur and beauty of that expression ...
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... worthy in weed , That now are driven to dale2 And dead all their deed , They sail in the sea ground , Fishes to feed : Fele fishes they feed For all their great fare , 3 10 It was in the wane of day That they came there . 4 The word of ...
... worthy in weed , That now are driven to dale2 And dead all their deed , They sail in the sea ground , Fishes to feed : Fele fishes they feed For all their great fare , 3 10 It was in the wane of day That they came there . 4 The word of ...
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... worthy elders him before , And obeisant and ready to his hand Were all his lieges , bothé less and more ; Thus in delight he liv'th and hath done yore , Beloved and drad , ' through favour of fortúne , Both of his lordés and of his ...
... worthy elders him before , And obeisant and ready to his hand Were all his lieges , bothé less and more ; Thus in delight he liv'th and hath done yore , Beloved and drad , ' through favour of fortúne , Both of his lordés and of his ...
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... worthy elders them before ; Bounté com'th all of God , nought of the streen1 Of which they ben engendred and i - bore . I trust in Goddés bounté , and therefore My marriage , and mine estate and rest , I Him betake ; He may doon as Him ...
... worthy elders them before ; Bounté com'th all of God , nought of the streen1 Of which they ben engendred and i - bore . I trust in Goddés bounté , and therefore My marriage , and mine estate and rest , I Him betake ; He may doon as Him ...
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... worthy gentleman , That she must kiss her child ere that it deid . And in her barm ' this little child she laid With full sad face , and gan the child to kiss , And lulléd it , and after gan it bliss . And thus she said in her benigné ...
... worthy gentleman , That she must kiss her child ere that it deid . And in her barm ' this little child she laid With full sad face , and gan the child to kiss , And lulléd it , and after gan it bliss . And thus she said in her benigné ...
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