The London Book of English VerseEyre & Spottiswoode, 1949 - 874 pages |
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Page 129
... rest it is confest , By a ' the rest that she sings best . My Peggy sings sae saftly , And in her sangs are tald , With innocence , the wale 3 of sense , At wawking of the fauld . ALLAN RAMSAY 1 keeping watch on 2 the rest 3 choice 130 ...
... rest it is confest , By a ' the rest that she sings best . My Peggy sings sae saftly , And in her sangs are tald , With innocence , the wale 3 of sense , At wawking of the fauld . ALLAN RAMSAY 1 keeping watch on 2 the rest 3 choice 130 ...
Page 538
... rest Mind us of like repose , since God hath set Labour and rest , as day and night to men Successive , and the timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumbrous weight inclines Our eye - lids ; other Creatures all day long Rove idle ...
... rest Mind us of like repose , since God hath set Labour and rest , as day and night to men Successive , and the timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumbrous weight inclines Our eye - lids ; other Creatures all day long Rove idle ...
Page 558
... rest , A heart prepar'd , that fears no ill to come : And that mans greatness rests but in his show ; The best of all whose days consumed are Either in war , or peace conceiving war . This concord , Madam , of a well - tun'd mind Hath ...
... rest , A heart prepar'd , that fears no ill to come : And that mans greatness rests but in his show ; The best of all whose days consumed are Either in war , or peace conceiving war . This concord , Madam , of a well - tun'd mind Hath ...
Contents
Geoffrey Chaucer The Prioresss Tale | 12 |
Christopher Marlowe From Hero and Leander | 13 |
William Shakespeare The Courser and the Jennet from | 14 |
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