Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 1Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... took a prance John Gilpin was a citizen Just for a handful of silver he left us Justice gives sentence many times 1503 601 1424 1444 94 1714 1674 938 1219 1432 272 1752 1565 806 287 771 1162 628 979 191. NO . OF POEM . NO . OF POEM 29 ...
... took a prance John Gilpin was a citizen Just for a handful of silver he left us Justice gives sentence many times 1503 601 1424 1444 94 1714 1674 938 1219 1432 272 1752 1565 806 287 771 1162 628 979 191. NO . OF POEM . NO . OF POEM 29 ...
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... took of the fruit , And again turned him thence To where he knew the handiwork Of heaven's King to be : Began then ask him , With his first word The enemy with lies , " Cravest thou aught , Adam , up with God ? I on his errand hither ...
... took of the fruit , And again turned him thence To where he knew the handiwork Of heaven's King to be : Began then ask him , With his first word The enemy with lies , " Cravest thou aught , Adam , up with God ? I on his errand hither ...
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... took in mind That she the hostile envoy's Suggestions would obey , But weened that she the favor Of heaven's King Wrought with the words Which she to the man Revealed , as it were a token , And vowed them true ; Till that to Adam ...
... took in mind That she the hostile envoy's Suggestions would obey , But weened that she the favor Of heaven's King Wrought with the words Which she to the man Revealed , as it were a token , And vowed them true ; Till that to Adam ...
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... took root in the language , like children making a mock garden with flowers and branches stuck in the ground , which speedily wither . - Campbell's Essay on English Poetry . BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES . • · Henrysone afford so excellent a THE ...
... took root in the language , like children making a mock garden with flowers and branches stuck in the ground , which speedily wither . - Campbell's Essay on English Poetry . BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES . • · Henrysone afford so excellent a THE ...
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... took good intent , And proffered me bread , with ale and wine , Ribs of beef , both fat and full fine , A fair cloth they ' gan for to spread . But , wanting money , I might not be sped . Then unto London I did me hie . Of all the land ...
... took good intent , And proffered me bread , with ale and wine , Ribs of beef , both fat and full fine , A fair cloth they ' gan for to spread . But , wanting money , I might not be sped . Then unto London I did me hie . Of all the land ...
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