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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... fire and brimstone , which for ever shall remaine . L The sight whereof so throughly him dis- maid , That nought but death before his eies he saw , And ever burning wrath before him laid , By righteous sentence of th ' Almighties law ...
... fire and brimstone , which for ever shall remaine . L The sight whereof so throughly him dis- maid , That nought but death before his eies he saw , And ever burning wrath before him laid , By righteous sentence of th ' Almighties law ...
Page 308
... fire , refining the grosser commixture , and firing out the æthereal particles so deeply immersed in it . And such as by tradition or rational conjec- 10 old opinion of the fiery substance of the soul , only extinguishable by that ...
... fire , refining the grosser commixture , and firing out the æthereal particles so deeply immersed in it . And such as by tradition or rational conjec- 10 old opinion of the fiery substance of the soul , only extinguishable by that ...
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... fire taketh 10 skulls made drinking - bowls , and our bones leave , corruption slowly enters . In bones well burnt , fire makes a wall against itself ; experi- mented in cupels , and tests of metals , which consist of such ingredients ...
... fire taketh 10 skulls made drinking - bowls , and our bones leave , corruption slowly enters . In bones well burnt , fire makes a wall against itself ; experi- mented in cupels , and tests of metals , which consist of such ingredients ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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