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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... Grace , God's name be praised for it , hath recovered your health , and are come to the court , and the 15 parliament business hath also intermission , I firmly hope your Grace will deal with his Majesty , that , as I have tasted of his ...
... Grace , God's name be praised for it , hath recovered your health , and are come to the court , and the 15 parliament business hath also intermission , I firmly hope your Grace will deal with his Majesty , that , as I have tasted of his ...
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... GRACE BEFORE MEAT a present sense of the blessings , which can be but feebly acted by the rich , into whose minds the conception of wanting a dinner could never , but by some extreme theory , have en- stered . The proper end of food ...
... GRACE BEFORE MEAT a present sense of the blessings , which can be but feebly acted by the rich , into whose minds the conception of wanting a dinner could never , but by some extreme theory , have en- stered . The proper end of food ...
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... grace to say grace . To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice . A lurking sense of this truth is what makes the performance of this duty so cold and spiritless a service at most tables ...
... grace to say grace . To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice . A lurking sense of this truth is what makes the performance of this duty so cold and spiritless a service at most tables ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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