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American Annals of Education - Page 535
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 8

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Was naught around but images of rest: Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery...
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The Age of Pope (1700-1744).

John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 pages
...atween June and May Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half embrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play.' There are verbal inspirations in a great poet which satisfy the ear, capture the imagination, and live...
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The Public School Speaker

Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...June and May, Half pranked with spring, with summer half imhrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Was nought around but images of rest : 20 Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between; And flowery...
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The English Poets

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery...
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A History of English Literature

E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Ween, think, fancy. " Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...June and May, Half prank t with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, ong as the sun, or at leabt as lung as I endure. I wonder whether Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery...
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery...
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A Grammar of Late Modern English: For the Use of Continental ..., Part 1

Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1904 - 844 pages
...CASTLE OF INDOLENCE (I, II), which also contains many deliberate archaisms. i) SCHMIDT , § 449. Where, sooth to say | No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Of ne . . ne also used archaically in the first canto of CHILDE HAROLD, there seem to be no instances...
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 10

Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 500 pages
...atween June and May, Halfprankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. 123. "He loved also in life," says Arrivabene, " Commento Storico," 584, a certain Belacqua, an excellent...
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The World's Best Poetry: Of fancy, of sentiment; [introductory essay] The ...

English poetry - 1904 - 542 pages
...June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half embrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Was naught around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between; And flowaey...
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