An Oxford Anthology of English ProseArnold Whitridge, John Wendell Dodds, Howard Foster Lowry Oxford University Press, 1935 - 950 pages |
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... DEATH MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in chil- dren is increased with tales , so is the other . Certainly , the contemplation of death , as the wages of sin , and passage to another world ...
... DEATH MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in chil- dren is increased with tales , so is the other . Certainly , the contemplation of death , as the wages of sin , and passage to another world ...
Page 81
... [ DEATH 3 ] DOTH not man die even in his birth ? The breaking of prison is death , and what is our birth but a breaking of prison ? As soon as we were clothed by God , our very apparel was an emblem of death . In the skins of dead beasts ...
... [ DEATH 3 ] DOTH not man die even in his birth ? The breaking of prison is death , and what is our birth but a breaking of prison ? As soon as we were clothed by God , our very apparel was an emblem of death . In the skins of dead beasts ...
Page 143
... death ; and death possesses both those portions by the next morrow ; and we are dead to all those months which we have already lived , and we shall never live them over again : and still God makes little periods of our age . First we ...
... death ; and death possesses both those portions by the next morrow ; and we are dead to all those months which we have already lived , and we shall never live them over again : and still God makes little periods of our age . First we ...
Contents
Le Morte Darthur | 1 |
Roger Ascham 15151568 | 19 |
Sir Thomas North | 29 |
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