Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1Scott, Foresman, 1910 - English literature |
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Page iii
... reasons , have no place in these pages ; nor should the omissions be regarded with surprise if a volume of confessedly rather elementary purpose fails to include such men as Burton , Browne , Locke , and Newton , voyagers " on strange ...
... reasons , have no place in these pages ; nor should the omissions be regarded with surprise if a volume of confessedly rather elementary purpose fails to include such men as Burton , Browne , Locke , and Newton , voyagers " on strange ...
Page iv
... reason to support it in writers of a much later date . To this rule the customary exceptions in poetry are made : Chaucer , Langland , the Ballads , Everyman , and Spenser's artificially archaic Faërie Queene , are kept in the original ...
... reason to support it in writers of a much later date . To this rule the customary exceptions in poetry are made : Chaucer , Langland , the Ballads , Everyman , and Spenser's artificially archaic Faërie Queene , are kept in the original ...
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... reason would have curbed my will . I wailed for my pearl there hid away , While fiercely warred my doubts withal , But tho ' Christ showed where comfort lay , My will was still my sorrow's thrall . 48 I flung me down on that flowery ...
... reason would have curbed my will . I wailed for my pearl there hid away , While fiercely warred my doubts withal , But tho ' Christ showed where comfort lay , My will was still my sorrow's thrall . 48 I flung me down on that flowery ...
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... reason the earth and the sea that be so great and so heavy should fall to the firmament : but that may not be , and therefore saith our Lord God , Non timeas me , qui suspendi terram ex nihilo ! 13 And albeit that it be possible thing ...
... reason the earth and the sea that be so great and so heavy should fall to the firmament : but that may not be , and therefore saith our Lord God , Non timeas me , qui suspendi terram ex nihilo ! 13 And albeit that it be possible thing ...
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... reason is . Yet am I sure of on pleasure , And shortly it is this : That wher ye be , me semeth , pardé , I could not fare amysse . Without more speche 1 you beseche That we were shortly gon ; 140 For in my mynd , of alle mankynd I love ...
... reason is . Yet am I sure of on pleasure , And shortly it is this : That wher ye be , me semeth , pardé , I could not fare amysse . Without more speche 1 you beseche That we were shortly gon ; 140 For in my mynd , of alle mankynd I love ...
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