Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... NUT- BROWN MAID . Its date is the end of the fif- teenth , or the beginning of the sixteenth century , -- its author is unknown . This lovely and unclaimed story possesses a refinement and tenderness of sen- timent , and a simplicity ...
... NUT- BROWN MAID . Its date is the end of the fif- teenth , or the beginning of the sixteenth century , -- its author is unknown . This lovely and unclaimed story possesses a refinement and tenderness of sen- timent , and a simplicity ...
Page 91
... Nut - Brown Maid in this modish fashion , Prior has drawn the moral fore - hammer of Johnson upon her devoted head ; and it is not a little amusing to find the " great moralist , " who seems entirely unacquainted with the real Nut ...
... Nut - Brown Maid in this modish fashion , Prior has drawn the moral fore - hammer of Johnson upon her devoted head ; and it is not a little amusing to find the " great moralist , " who seems entirely unacquainted with the real Nut ...
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... Nut - Brown Maid , who again replies , SHE . I shall as nowe do more for you Than longeth to womanhede ; To shote my here , a bowe to bere , To shote in tyme of nede , O my swete mother , before all other For you ENGLISH POETRY . 95.
... Nut - Brown Maid , who again replies , SHE . I shall as nowe do more for you Than longeth to womanhede ; To shote my here , a bowe to bere , To shote in tyme of nede , O my swete mother , before all other For you ENGLISH POETRY . 95.
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... Nut - Brown Maid , and that , as jealous quarrels might arise to disturb his quiet , he cannot suffer her to follow him . Even against this last shock her love is proof : - SHE . Though in the wode I undyrstode Ye had a paramour , All ...
... Nut - Brown Maid , and that , as jealous quarrels might arise to disturb his quiet , he cannot suffer her to follow him . Even against this last shock her love is proof : - SHE . Though in the wode I undyrstode Ye had a paramour , All ...
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... Nut- brown Maid . " AN EPITAPH . INTERR'D beneath this marble stone Lie sauntering Jack and idle Joan . While rolling threescore years and one Did round this globe their courses run , If human things went ill or well , If changing ...
... Nut- brown Maid . " AN EPITAPH . INTERR'D beneath this marble stone Lie sauntering Jack and idle Joan . While rolling threescore years and one Did round this globe their courses run , If human things went ill or well , If changing ...
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