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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... youth he lerned hadde a good mistere : ( a ) He was a wel good wright , a carpentere . This revè sate upon a right good stot , ( b ) That was all pomelee ( c ) grey , and hightè Scot . A long surcote of perse upon he hade , And by his ...
... youth he lerned hadde a good mistere : ( a ) He was a wel good wright , a carpentere . This revè sate upon a right good stot , ( b ) That was all pomelee ( c ) grey , and hightè Scot . A long surcote of perse upon he hade , And by his ...
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... youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richesse , and womanly feature ; God better wrote than my pen can report : Wisdom , largess , estate , and cunning sure , In every point so guided her measure , In word , in deed , in shape ...
... youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richesse , and womanly feature ; God better wrote than my pen can report : Wisdom , largess , estate , and cunning sure , In every point so guided her measure , In word , in deed , in shape ...
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... was contracted in marriage to his sister , Surrey was warmly attached ; and the tender re collection of this youth , who died at the age of seventeen , often breaks out in his verses with marks of sensibility EARL OF SURREY ...............
... was contracted in marriage to his sister , Surrey was warmly attached ; and the tender re collection of this youth , who died at the age of seventeen , often breaks out in his verses with marks of sensibility EARL OF SURREY ...............
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... youth- ful wantonness . For such offences , and for eating meat in Lent , he was twice imprisoned , and in confinement consoled himself by writing love - verses . Chaucer , nearly two hundred years before , had been fined for beating a ...
... youth- ful wantonness . For such offences , and for eating meat in Lent , he was twice imprisoned , and in confinement consoled himself by writing love - verses . Chaucer , nearly two hundred years before , had been fined for beating a ...
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... youth of nineteen , attended in an official capacity at the trial of Anne Boleyn . The romance of his character , the mystery of his passion , and above all his unjust death in the flower of his age , have thrown an interest around the ...
... youth of nineteen , attended in an official capacity at the trial of Anne Boleyn . The romance of his character , the mystery of his passion , and above all his unjust death in the flower of his age , have thrown an interest around the ...
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