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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... doth hastily repaire . Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe , And low , where dawning day doth never peepe , His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever ...
... doth hastily repaire . Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe , And low , where dawning day doth never peepe , His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever ...
Page 172
... doth call : All hurtlen forth ; and she , with princely pace , As faire Aurora in her purple pall Out of the East the dawning day doth call . 140 So forth she comes ; her brightnes brode doth blaze . The heapes of people , thronging in ...
... doth call : All hurtlen forth ; and she , with princely pace , As faire Aurora in her purple pall Out of the East the dawning day doth call . 140 So forth she comes ; her brightnes brode doth blaze . The heapes of people , thronging in ...
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... doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the latter school of the Grecians examineth the matter , and is at a stand to think what should be in it , that men 5 should love lies ; where ...
... doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the latter school of the Grecians examineth the matter , and is at a stand to think what should be in it , that men 5 should love lies ; where ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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