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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... hall - chamber , a mead - house , Than sons of men e'er heard of , a mightier far for praise and then within the hall except men's lives and lands . too ) Unto young and unto old to deal his treasures all , Such as God had lent him , To ...
... hall - chamber , a mead - house , Than sons of men e'er heard of , a mightier far for praise and then within the hall except men's lives and lands . too ) Unto young and unto old to deal his treasures all , Such as God had lent him , To ...
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... Hall Heorot , and bare of a Danishman and the paw of her dead son Grendel , and how on the morrow King Hrothgar grieved anew , just as Beowulf , who knew not what had passed , had wended to the King's House to wish Hrothgar a courteous ...
... Hall Heorot , and bare of a Danishman and the paw of her dead son Grendel , and how on the morrow King Hrothgar grieved anew , just as Beowulf , who knew not what had passed , had wended to the King's House to wish Hrothgar a courteous ...
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... hall , rings of wreathéd gold , And whiles unto the old , did Hrothgar's daughter bear- within the hall - house there , Freawaru name . I must speak at last , may know the end aright When heaven's Jewel bright came that angry Sprite ...
... hall , rings of wreathéd gold , And whiles unto the old , did Hrothgar's daughter bear- within the hall - house there , Freawaru name . I must speak at last , may know the end aright When heaven's Jewel bright came that angry Sprite ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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