Great English Writers, Volume 1Oscar James Campbell, Hardin Craig, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Joseph Morris Thomas F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 A chronological rearrangement, with many additions, of the material included in the editors' Great English poets and Great English prose writers. cf. Pref. |
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... Queene seems to set forth the moment he abandons any domicile is not , then , so purely imaginary after all . Rather , it is the imaginative realization of a terrible actuality . Only , every now and then , the veil of human depravity ...
... Queene seems to set forth the moment he abandons any domicile is not , then , so purely imaginary after all . Rather , it is the imaginative realization of a terrible actuality . Only , every now and then , the veil of human depravity ...
Page 147
... Queene is not the kind of book one finishes - closing it with a snap , or laying it down with a sigh . It is , as Tennyson said of Clarissa Harlowe , " one of those great still books in which one may read on and on without any fear of ...
... Queene is not the kind of book one finishes - closing it with a snap , or laying it down with a sigh . It is , as Tennyson said of Clarissa Harlowe , " one of those great still books in which one may read on and on without any fear of ...
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... Queene kept her An- nuall feaste xii . dayes ; uppon which xii . severall dayes , the occasions of the xii . severall adven- tures hapned , which , being undertaken by xii . severall knights , are in these xii . books sever- 25 ally ...
... Queene kept her An- nuall feaste xii . dayes ; uppon which xii . severall dayes , the occasions of the xii . severall adven- tures hapned , which , being undertaken by xii . severall knights , are in these xii . books sever- 25 ally ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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