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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... hand - companions , To greet with words the Wise If he had slept a quiet night this Man , the brave - in - brawl , whilst sounded planks in hall , One , and ask the Ingwines ' Sire after his desire . 50 60 XX The Scop chants how ...
... hand - companions , To greet with words the Wise If he had slept a quiet night this Man , the brave - in - brawl , whilst sounded planks in hall , One , and ask the Ingwines ' Sire after his desire . 50 60 XX The Scop chants how ...
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... hand : his hand did quake And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene , And troubled blood through his pale face was seene To come and goe with tidings from the heart , As it a ronning messenger had beene . At last , resolv'd to work his ...
... hand : his hand did quake And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene , And troubled blood through his pale face was seene To come and goe with tidings from the heart , As it a ronning messenger had beene . At last , resolv'd to work his ...
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... hand our young Ascanius sate , Rome's other hope , and pillar of the State , His brows thick fogs , instead of glories , grace , 110 And lambent dulness play'd around his face . As Hannibal did to the altars come , Sworn by his sire a ...
... hand our young Ascanius sate , Rome's other hope , and pillar of the State , His brows thick fogs , instead of glories , grace , 110 And lambent dulness play'd around his face . As Hannibal did to the altars come , Sworn by his sire a ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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