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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... round her chamber . This tale or apologue is told in that mine of stories , called the Gesta Romanorum , from which our elder poets drew copiously . Passing over several obscure names , half - forgot- ten even by antiquaries , the next ...
... round her chamber . This tale or apologue is told in that mine of stories , called the Gesta Romanorum , from which our elder poets drew copiously . Passing over several obscure names , half - forgot- ten even by antiquaries , the next ...
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... round , and quhyte , Quhome to behold was greit deleit ; Lyke the quhyte lillie was her lyre ; ( d ) Hir hair wes like the reid gold weir ; Hir scharckis quhyte , withouten hois , ( e ) Quhareat the squyar did rejois , And said , then ...
... round , and quhyte , Quhome to behold was greit deleit ; Lyke the quhyte lillie was her lyre ; ( d ) Hir hair wes like the reid gold weir ; Hir scharckis quhyte , withouten hois , ( e ) Quhareat the squyar did rejois , And said , then ...
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... round about them pleasauntly did sing Many faire ladies and lascivious boyes , That ever mixt their song with light licentious toyes . And all that while right over him she hong With her false eyes fast fixed in his sight , As seeking ...
... round about them pleasauntly did sing Many faire ladies and lascivious boyes , That ever mixt their song with light licentious toyes . And all that while right over him she hong With her false eyes fast fixed in his sight , As seeking ...
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... round : From those two bulwarks love doth safely fight ; Which swelling easily , may seem to sight To be enwombed both of pleasure and delight . Yet all these stars which deck this beauteous sky By force of th ' inward sun both shine ...
... round : From those two bulwarks love doth safely fight ; Which swelling easily , may seem to sight To be enwombed both of pleasure and delight . Yet all these stars which deck this beauteous sky By force of th ' inward sun both shine ...
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... round for his amusement , and surveyed the generations of men , and the individuals as they passed , with their different concerns , passions , follies , vices , virtues , actions , and motives - as well those that they knew , as those ...
... round for his amusement , and surveyed the generations of men , and the individuals as they passed , with their different concerns , passions , follies , vices , virtues , actions , and motives - as well those that they knew , as those ...
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