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...with howe greveous plagues, vyces are punished in great princes and magistrates, and how frayle and unstable worldly prosperity is founde, where Fortune seemeth moste...

33) §14. Spenser as a word-painter and as a metrical musician. XI. The Poetry of Spenser. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
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34) §3. "Peblis to the Play; Christis Kirk on the Greene". XI. The Middle Scots Anthologies: Anonymous Verse and Early Prose. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
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35) §1. Middle English Lyrics. XVII. Later Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of alliteration as a main feature, instead of, what it has ever been and still is, an unessential ornament, of English verse was strong in the land. And first among...

36) §9. "Poems and Ballads". V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and Others. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of his power of adapting sound to meaning. Characteristic features of all these poems are the use of alliteration and of words which, by community of sound and form,...

37) §13. Ruskin; "Modern Painters". III. Critical and Miscellaneous Prose. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Note on the Perforation of a Leaden Pipe by Rats and Facts and Considerations on the Strata of Mont Blanc. Again; in The Poetry of Architecture, some of the leading...

38) §5. Wulfstan. VII. From Alfred to the Conquest. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
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39) §4. The Works of Aelfric. VII. From Alfred to the Conquest. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...with his son continued and bore important fruit in later years. 41 Three other biblical paraphrases or homilies may be traced to Aelfric. In his tractate on the Old...

40) VII. Chaucer: Bibliography. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...B. C. s Sprache und Verskunst. Leipzig, 1884. 2nd ed. 1899. Transl. into English by M. Bentinck Smith. 1902. Tyrwhitt, T. On the Versification of C. (See Introduction...