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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... Give me some gift , thy glove if it might be , To bring you to mind , sir , my mourning to lessen . " 1800 " On my word , " quoth the hero , " I would that I had here , For thy sake , the thing that I think the dear- est I own , for in ...
... Give me some gift , thy glove if it might be , To bring you to mind , sir , my mourning to lessen . " 1800 " On my word , " quoth the hero , " I would that I had here , For thy sake , the thing that I think the dear- est I own , for in ...
Page 292
... give him a liberal and honour- able reward . These statues are , some of brass ; some of marble and touch - stone ; some of 5 cedar , and other special woods gilt and adorned : some of iron ; some of silver ; some of gold . " We have ...
... give him a liberal and honour- able reward . These statues are , some of brass ; some of marble and touch - stone ; some of 5 cedar , and other special woods gilt and adorned : some of iron ; some of silver ; some of gold . " We have ...
Page 415
... gives : And that " -But there he paus'd ; then sigh- To ply him with new plots shall be my care ; ing , said- He ... give no more , The thrifty Sanhedrin shall keep him poor ; And every shekel which he can receive , Shall cost a limb ...
... gives : And that " -But there he paus'd ; then sigh- To ply him with new plots shall be my care ; ing , said- He ... give no more , The thrifty Sanhedrin shall keep him poor ; And every shekel which he can receive , Shall cost a limb ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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