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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... bear or sword or broad shield , With grip I'll grasp this Grendel , A loather ' gainst a loather . Let him believe the Lord's doom . Methinketh , in that war - hall , eat unfearingly The Geatfolk , as so often No need for thee to hide ...
... bear or sword or broad shield , With grip I'll grasp this Grendel , A loather ' gainst a loather . Let him believe the Lord's doom . Methinketh , in that war - hall , eat unfearingly The Geatfolk , as so often No need for thee to hide ...
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... bear the fruits of conviction . Mr. Brougham can follow the ramifications of an quainted with the springs of the human mind . He finds himself at the end of his speech , - in the last sentence of it , -just where he was at the beginning ...
... bear the fruits of conviction . Mr. Brougham can follow the ramifications of an quainted with the springs of the human mind . He finds himself at the end of his speech , - in the last sentence of it , -just where he was at the beginning ...
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... bear . In our latitude the constellation of the Bear never sets ; therefore the expression means watch until the stars fade in the light of morning . 88. thrice - great Hermes , Hermes Trismegis- tus , a mythical philosopher , supposed ...
... bear . In our latitude the constellation of the Bear never sets ; therefore the expression means watch until the stars fade in the light of morning . 88. thrice - great Hermes , Hermes Trismegis- tus , a mythical philosopher , supposed ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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