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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... hath seyn biforn , So strong it is that , though the world had Sworn 810 The contrairie of a thing , by ye or nay , Yet somtyme it shal fallen on a day That falleth nat eft withinne a thousand yere . For certeinly our appetytes here ...
... hath seyn biforn , So strong it is that , though the world had Sworn 810 The contrairie of a thing , by ye or nay , Yet somtyme it shal fallen on a day That falleth nat eft withinne a thousand yere . For certeinly our appetytes here ...
Page 133
... hath nat taken his beginning Of no partye , ne cantel , of a thing , But of a thing that parfit is and stable Descending so , til it be corrumpable . And therfore of his wise purveiaunce He hath so wel biset his ordinaunce , That speces ...
... hath nat taken his beginning Of no partye , ne cantel , of a thing , But of a thing that parfit is and stable Descending so , til it be corrumpable . And therfore of his wise purveiaunce He hath so wel biset his ordinaunce , That speces ...
Page 270
... hath his infancy , when it is but beginning and almost childish : then his youth , when it is luxuriant and juvenile : s then his strength of years , when it is solid and reduced : and lastly , his old age , when it waxeth dry and ...
... hath his infancy , when it is but beginning and almost childish : then his youth , when it is luxuriant and juvenile : s then his strength of years , when it is solid and reduced : and lastly , his old age , when it waxeth dry and ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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