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, |
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... fair but feir , ( a ) Lusty of shaip , lycht of deliverance , Reid of his cullour as the ruby glance , In field of gold he stude full mychtely With floure de lucis sirculit ( b ) lustely . He is appointed by Nature King of the Beasts ...
... fair but feir , ( a ) Lusty of shaip , lycht of deliverance , Reid of his cullour as the ruby glance , In field of gold he stude full mychtely With floure de lucis sirculit ( b ) lustely . He is appointed by Nature King of the Beasts ...
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... fair freight of an hundred nymphs among the green rushes and reeds of an enamelled meadow . This fair group , Als fresche as flowrs that in the May upspreids In kirtills grene , withoutin kell ( a ) or bands Their bricht hair hung ...
... fair freight of an hundred nymphs among the green rushes and reeds of an enamelled meadow . This fair group , Als fresche as flowrs that in the May upspreids In kirtills grene , withoutin kell ( a ) or bands Their bricht hair hung ...
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... fair Snawdoune , with thy touris hie , Thy chapell royall , park , and tabill rounde ! ( a ) May , June , and July , wald I dwell in thee . War I one man , to heir the birdis sound , Quhilk doth again thy royal rocke rebound ! But ...
... fair Snawdoune , with thy touris hie , Thy chapell royall , park , and tabill rounde ! ( a ) May , June , and July , wald I dwell in thee . War I one man , to heir the birdis sound , Quhilk doth again thy royal rocke rebound ! But ...
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... fair ladie , freshe and gay , Start up to take the hailsum ( c ) air , With pantouns ( d ) on hir feit ane pair , Airlie into ane cleir morning , Befoir fair Phoebus ' uprysing : ( a ) Napery . ( b ) Jelly . ( c ) Wholesome . ( d ) ...
... fair ladie , freshe and gay , Start up to take the hailsum ( c ) air , With pantouns ( d ) on hir feit ane pair , Airlie into ane cleir morning , Befoir fair Phoebus ' uprysing : ( a ) Napery . ( b ) Jelly . ( c ) Wholesome . ( d ) ...
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... Fair Geraldine , whom the passion and genius of her lover have rendered so illus - trious in poetical annals ; but he is only too successful in showing , that , instead of pricking forth her knight and lover - proclaiming her peerless ...
... Fair Geraldine , whom the passion and genius of her lover have rendered so illus - trious in poetical annals ; but he is only too successful in showing , that , instead of pricking forth her knight and lover - proclaiming her peerless ...
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