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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... gave Than those who sent him whilom a lone babe o'er the wave . O'er his head they set , too , Let the billows bear him , Theirs were souls of sorrow , And no man can say sooth , - None of battle - bold ones , - golden banner steep , gave ...
... gave Than those who sent him whilom a lone babe o'er the wave . O'er his head they set , too , Let the billows bear him , Theirs were souls of sorrow , And no man can say sooth , - None of battle - bold ones , - golden banner steep , gave ...
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... gave , and added then his hest the tale of its bequest . Heorogar , the King , this breast - garmenting ; to son of his so lief , That first I should relate thee He quoth the Prince of Scyldings , A long while had owned it , But yet he ...
... gave , and added then his hest the tale of its bequest . Heorogar , the King , this breast - garmenting ; to son of his so lief , That first I should relate thee He quoth the Prince of Scyldings , A long while had owned it , But yet he ...
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... gave of- fence to some of the friends of that noble- s man , and particularly produced a declaration of war against him from Mrs. Montagu , the ingenious Essayist on Shakspeare , between whom and his Lordship a commerce of recip ...
... gave of- fence to some of the friends of that noble- s man , and particularly produced a declaration of war against him from Mrs. Montagu , the ingenious Essayist on Shakspeare , between whom and his Lordship a commerce of recip ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
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