Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... We have committed a similar mistake in the word barley , which signifies , in fact , the ley or land upon which the bear grows ( bene , hor- deum ; lea3 , a ley ) . " What sounds are these that gather from the shores ...
... We have committed a similar mistake in the word barley , which signifies , in fact , the ley or land upon which the bear grows ( bene , hor- deum ; lea3 , a ley ) . " What sounds are these that gather from the shores ...
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... mentioned in English ; but the whole of Gower's work is suspected to be made up of licentious translations from the Latin or French . 3 Wif of Bathes Tale . That serchen every land , and every streme , As 20 FAIRY MYTHOLOGY .
... mentioned in English ; but the whole of Gower's work is suspected to be made up of licentious translations from the Latin or French . 3 Wif of Bathes Tale . That serchen every land , and every streme , As 20 FAIRY MYTHOLOGY .
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Joseph Ritson. That serchen every land , and every streme , As thikke as motes in the sunnebeme , Blissing halles , chambres , kichenes , and boures , Citees and burghes , castles highe and toures , Thropes and bernes , shepenes and ...
Joseph Ritson. That serchen every land , and every streme , As thikke as motes in the sunnebeme , Blissing halles , chambres , kichenes , and boures , Citees and burghes , castles highe and toures , Thropes and bernes , shepenes and ...
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... land , " 4to . Edinb . 1822. The Ashmolean MS . is a far better version than that printed by Ritson , and , although it agrees rather closely with the copy in the Auchinleck MS . , it is more complete at the commencement , and in many ...
... land , " 4to . Edinb . 1822. The Ashmolean MS . is a far better version than that printed by Ritson , and , although it agrees rather closely with the copy in the Auchinleck MS . , it is more complete at the commencement , and in many ...
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... lands of the people , observes Mr Wright , is perhaps nowhere so fully exhibited as in the fol- lowing ballad , which is besides no unfavourable specimen of early poetry . There is something exceedingly graceful in the com- mencement of ...
... lands of the people , observes Mr Wright , is perhaps nowhere so fully exhibited as in the fol- lowing ballad , which is besides no unfavourable specimen of early poetry . There is something exceedingly graceful in the com- mencement of ...
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