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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... blood - thirstie blade , Stroke one of those deformed heades so sore , That of his puissaunce proud ensample made : His monstrous scalpe downe to his teeth it tore , And that misformed shape misshaped more . 140 A sea of blood gusht ...
... blood - thirstie blade , Stroke one of those deformed heades so sore , That of his puissaunce proud ensample made : His monstrous scalpe downe to his teeth it tore , And that misformed shape misshaped more . 140 A sea of blood gusht ...
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... blood were cold , And to the villein sayd ; ' Thou damned wight , The authour of this fact we here behold , What justice can but judge against thee right , With thine owne blood to price his blood , here shed in sight ? ' XXXVIII 331 ...
... blood were cold , And to the villein sayd ; ' Thou damned wight , The authour of this fact we here behold , What justice can but judge against thee right , With thine owne blood to price his blood , here shed in sight ? ' XXXVIII 331 ...
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... blood - hound , and the warder shall not sound , And rushes shall be strewed on the stair ; So , by the black rood - stone , and by holy St. John , " " I conjure thee , my love , to be there ! ' - 80 " Though the blood - hound be mute ...
... blood - hound , and the warder shall not sound , And rushes shall be strewed on the stair ; So , by the black rood - stone , and by holy St. John , " " I conjure thee , my love , to be there ! ' - 80 " Though the blood - hound be mute ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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