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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... greet fraternitee ; Ful fresh and newe hir gere apyked was ; Hir knyves were y - chaped noght with bras , But al with silver , wroght ful clene and weel , Hir girdles and hir pouches everydeel . Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeys To ...
... greet fraternitee ; Ful fresh and newe hir gere apyked was ; Hir knyves were y - chaped noght with bras , But al with silver , wroght ful clene and weel , Hir girdles and hir pouches everydeel . Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeys To ...
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... greet opinioun That if I mighte escapen from prisoun , Thanne hadde I been in Ioye and perfit hele , Ther now I am exiled fro my wele . 410 4.20 Sin that I may nat seen yow , Emelye , I nam but deed , there nis no remedye . " Upon that ...
... greet opinioun That if I mighte escapen from prisoun , Thanne hadde I been in Ioye and perfit hele , Ther now I am exiled fro my wele . 410 4.20 Sin that I may nat seen yow , Emelye , I nam but deed , there nis no remedye . " Upon that ...
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... greet compaignye , And after that cam woful Emelye , With fyr in honde , as was that tyme the gyse To do the office of funeral servyse . Heigh labour , and ful greet apparaillinge , Was at the service and the fyr makinge , That with his ...
... greet compaignye , And after that cam woful Emelye , With fyr in honde , as was that tyme the gyse To do the office of funeral servyse . Heigh labour , and ful greet apparaillinge , Was at the service and the fyr makinge , That with his ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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