Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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... looke , and I am gone : Looke on me , for I am hee , Thy poor sillie Coridon . Thou that art the shepheards queene , Looke upon thy silly swaine ; By thy comfort have beene seene Dead men brought to life againe . Phillida and Coridon ...
... looke , and I am gone : Looke on me , for I am hee , Thy poor sillie Coridon . Thou that art the shepheards queene , Looke upon thy silly swaine ; By thy comfort have beene seene Dead men brought to life againe . Phillida and Coridon ...
Page 302
... looke , who list thy gazefull eyes to feed With sight of that is faire , looke on the frame Of this wyde universe , and therein reed The endlesse kinds of creatures which by name Thou canst not count , much lesse their natures aime ...
... looke , who list thy gazefull eyes to feed With sight of that is faire , looke on the frame Of this wyde universe , and therein reed The endlesse kinds of creatures which by name Thou canst not count , much lesse their natures aime ...
Page 331
... looke to the reckning heere ? and in plaine veritie , it tooke expected effect , for with the noise he started and bustled , like a man that had beene scared with fyre out of his sleepe , and ranne hastily to his Tapster , and all to be ...
... looke to the reckning heere ? and in plaine veritie , it tooke expected effect , for with the noise he started and bustled , like a man that had beene scared with fyre out of his sleepe , and ranne hastily to his Tapster , and all to be ...
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HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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