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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... fall , Whose fall did never foe before behold : And now in darksome dungeon , wretched thrall , Remedillesse for aie he doth him hold . This is my cause of griefe , more great then may be told . ' Assure your selfe I will you not ...
... fall , Whose fall did never foe before behold : And now in darksome dungeon , wretched thrall , Remedillesse for aie he doth him hold . This is my cause of griefe , more great then may be told . ' Assure your selfe I will you not ...
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... fall his shield , that covered was , Did loose his vele by chaunce , and open flew ; The light whereof , that hevens light did pas , Such blazing brightnesse through the ayer threw , That eye mote not the same endure to vew . Which when ...
... fall his shield , that covered was , Did loose his vele by chaunce , and open flew ; The light whereof , that hevens light did pas , Such blazing brightnesse through the ayer threw , That eye mote not the same endure to vew . Which when ...
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... fall , and some of them two or three . I was assured that a year or two before my arrival , Flimnap would have infallibly broke his neck , 35 if one of the King's cushions , that accident- ally lay on the ground , had not weakened the ...
... fall , and some of them two or three . I was assured that a year or two before my arrival , Flimnap would have infallibly broke his neck , 35 if one of the King's cushions , that accident- ally lay on the ground , had not weakened the ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
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