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  • O singular sweetnesse, naturally living in faire feminine blood!

    The Decameron 2004

  • For there is not any fountaine with vs, which may in the least respect be compared with the sweetnesse of honie.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • For there is not any fountaine with vs, which may in the least respect be compared with the sweetnesse of honie.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • It passeth all beleefe to thynke of the exceedyng sweetnesse of these sauours, farre surmounting the shoppes of the apothecaries.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • The latter likewise with his rime striketh a certaine Musicke to the ear: and in fine, since it dooth delight, though by an other way, it obtaineth the same purpose, there being in either sweetnesse, and wanting in neither, majestie.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • For not onely in time they had this prioritie, (although in it selfe antiquitie be venerable) {4} but went before them, as causes to draw with their charming sweetnesse the wild untamed wits to an admiration of knowledge.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • Ah, infortunate Alerane, there is no floure that ought to be so handled, nor sauor, the sweetnesse whereof ought not to bee sented without desert merited before.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Italian delicacie for the manner of their buildings, the cleannesse and sweetnesse of their streets, their way of living, their entertainments for recreations by Villas, Gardens, Walks, Fountains, Academies, Arts of

    English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

  • Let calamitie be the exercise, but not the ouerthrow or my vertue; let their power preuaile, but preuaile not to destruction; let my greatnesse be their pray; let my paine bee the sweetnesse of there reuenge: let them, (if so it seeme good vnto thee) vexe me with more and more punishment.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • They bereued and toke awaye from vs the fathers a newe kinde of authoritie, which was neuer sene before, who now feeling the sweetnesse thereof, will neuer geue it ouer.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

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