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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... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or briar , which prick and scratch , because they s can do no other . The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs ...
... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or briar , which prick and scratch , because they s can do no other . The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs ...
Page 261
... better to sound a person , with whom one deals , afar off , than to fall upon the point at first ; except you mean to sur- prise him by some short question . It is better dealing with men in appetite , than with those 20 for they are ...
... better to sound a person , with whom one deals , afar off , than to fall upon the point at first ; except you mean to sur- prise him by some short question . It is better dealing with men in appetite , than with those 20 for they are ...
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... better judge of cookery , than any per- son who has a very tolerable cook , but lives much at home ; for his palate is gradually adapted to the taste of his cook : whereas , Madam , in trying by a wider range , I can more exquisitely ...
... better judge of cookery , than any per- son who has a very tolerable cook , but lives much at home ; for his palate is gradually adapted to the taste of his cook : whereas , Madam , in trying by a wider range , I can more exquisitely ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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