Reliques of ancient English poetry, by T. Percy, ed. by J. V. Prichard, Volume 21876 |
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... never pub- lished , bore fruit in his own mind , and his training placed him both in knowledge and judgment far in advance of Johnson as a philologist . Webster's ' American Dictionary of the English Language was pub- lished in 1828 ...
... never pub- lished , bore fruit in his own mind , and his training placed him both in knowledge and judgment far in advance of Johnson as a philologist . Webster's ' American Dictionary of the English Language was pub- lished in 1828 ...
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... never wholly laid aside , but occasionally used at different intervals : though the ravages of time will not suffer us now to produce a regular series of poems entirely written in it . There are some readers whom it may gratify to ...
... never wholly laid aside , but occasionally used at different intervals : though the ravages of time will not suffer us now to produce a regular series of poems entirely written in it . There are some readers whom it may gratify to ...
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... never used but in ballads and pieces of light humour , as in the following song of Con- science , and in that well - known doggrel , 8 " A cobler there was , and he lived in a stall . " But although this kind of measure hath with us ...
... never used but in ballads and pieces of light humour , as in the following song of Con- science , and in that well - known doggrel , 8 " A cobler there was , and he lived in a stall . " But although this kind of measure hath with us ...
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... never prevail'd till they had wrought my downe - fall . Soe Pride was entertained , but Conscience decried . And now ever since ' abroad have I tryed 46 To have had entertainment with some one or other , But I am rejected and scorned of ...
... never prevail'd till they had wrought my downe - fall . Soe Pride was entertained , but Conscience decried . And now ever since ' abroad have I tryed 46 To have had entertainment with some one or other , But I am rejected and scorned of ...
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... never come there . 80 " Next the Merchants said , ' Counterfeite , get thee away , Dost thou remember how wee thee fond ? We banisht thee the country beyond the salt sea , And sett thee on shore in the New - found land , 86 And there ...
... never come there . 80 " Next the Merchants said , ' Counterfeite , get thee away , Dost thou remember how wee thee fond ? We banisht thee the country beyond the salt sea , And sett thee on shore in the New - found land , 86 And there ...
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Page 34 - You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind.
Page 160 - ... paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how), With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me? THE SONGS OF BIRDS What bird so sings, yet so does wail? O 'tis the...
Page 383 - Translated. In 2 vols. History of Christian Dogmas. Translated. In 2 vols. • Christian Life in the Early and Middle Ages, including his 'Light in Dark Places.
Page 57 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner?
Page 35 - An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate...
Page 318 - St. George he was for England ; St. Dennis was for France, Sing, Honi soit qui mal y pense.