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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and ... - Page 76
by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 122 pages
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Chaucer.- Surrey.- Wyat.- Sackville.- v. 2. Spenser.- Shakespeare.- Davies ...

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 794 pages
...foreft, In which ther wonneth neyther man ne beft, With knotty knarry barrein trees old Of ftubbcs iharpe and hidous to behold, In which ther ran a romble and a fwough, As though a (lorme (huld breften every bough ; And dounward from an hill under a bent Ther...
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Chaucer

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 766 pages
...and frosty region, Ther as Mars bath his sovereine mansion. First on the wall was peinted a forest, In which ther wonneth neyther man ne best, With knotty...bresten every bough : And dounward from an hill under a brnt, Ther stood the temple of Mars armipotent, Wrought all of burned stele, of which th' entre* Was...
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...and frosty region, Ther as Mars hath his sovereine mansion. First on the wall was peinted a forest, In which ther wonneth neyther man ne best, With knotty...As though a storme shuld bresten every bough." And again, among innumerable terrific images of death and slaughter painted on the wall, is this one: "...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...and frosty region, Ther as Mars hath his sovereine mansion. First on the wall was peinted a forest, In which ther wonneth neyther man ne best, With knotty...barrein trees old Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold j In which ther ran a romble and a swough, As though a stornie shuld bresten every bough." And again,...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 12

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 496 pages
...the wall was peinted a forest, In which ther wonneth nyther man ne best, With knotty knarry barrien trees old, Of stubbes sharpe, and hidous to behold, In which ther ran a rgmble and a swough, As though a storme shuld brestcn every bough ; And dounward from an hill, under...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and frosty region, Ther as Mars hath his sovereine mansion. F,rst on the wall was peinted a forest, In which ther wonneth neyther man ne best, With knotty knarry barrein trees old Of stnbbes sharp and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough, As though a stormo shuld...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...frosty region, Ther as Mars hath his sovereine mansion. First on the wall was peinted a forest, In whieh hinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels ; Full fast he flies, sharp and hidous to behold ; In whieh ther ran a romble and a swough, As though a storme shuld hresten...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...which ther wonncth neyther man ne beet , With knotty, knarry, barrein trees old, Of stubbes sharps, and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough, As though a stormc shuld brcstcn every bough. Chavctr. The Knighta Tale. There overtokc. Ta grete route Of hunters...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...wood; an officer of the forest; an inhabitant of a wild country. First on the wall was peinted & forest In which ther wonneth neyther man ne best ; With knotty, knarry, barrein trees old, Of ttubbes sharpe, and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough, As though a fttorme...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science ..., Volume 11

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...elevation of ground less than a mountain: hillock, a little hill: hillf, of unequal surface. And, downward from an hill, under a bent Ther stood the temple of Mars Armipotenl. Chaucer. The A~iu>*'« T™. Three sides are sure embarred with crags and *>•&« The...
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