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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... eyes , and as unfix'd as those : 10 Favours to none , to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects , but never once offends . Bright as the sun , her eyes the gazers strike , And , like the sun , they shine on all alike . Yet graceful ...
... eyes , and as unfix'd as those : 10 Favours to none , to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects , but never once offends . Bright as the sun , her eyes the gazers strike , And , like the sun , they shine on all alike . Yet graceful ...
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... eyes : Nor fear'd the Chief th ' unequal fight to try , Who sought no more than on his foe to die . But this bold Lord with manly strength en- du'd , She with one finger and a thumb subdu'd : 80 Just where the breath of life his ...
... eyes : Nor fear'd the Chief th ' unequal fight to try , Who sought no more than on his foe to die . But this bold Lord with manly strength en- du'd , She with one finger and a thumb subdu'd : 80 Just where the breath of life his ...
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... eyes . I waste the Matin lamp in sighs for thee , Thy image steals between my God and me , Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear , With ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear . When from the censer clouds of fragrance roll , And swelling ...
... eyes . I waste the Matin lamp in sighs for thee , Thy image steals between my God and me , Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear , With ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear . When from the censer clouds of fragrance roll , And swelling ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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