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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... hold to be true , Before you no lord now alive would be chosen . " " A better choice , madam , you truly have made ; Yet I'm proud of the value you put now upon me . Your servant as seemly , I hold you my sover- eign , Become your ...
... hold to be true , Before you no lord now alive would be chosen . " " A better choice , madam , you truly have made ; Yet I'm proud of the value you put now upon me . Your servant as seemly , I hold you my sover- eign , Become your ...
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... hold upon them . 190 An host of hermits hung at his bidding , Cut up their copes , made short - coats from them , Went as workmen with spades and shovels , And dug and ditched to drive off Hunger . Blind and bed - rid were bettered by ...
... hold upon them . 190 An host of hermits hung at his bidding , Cut up their copes , made short - coats from them , Went as workmen with spades and shovels , And dug and ditched to drive off Hunger . Blind and bed - rid were bettered by ...
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... hold thy mortall hand for Ladies sake ; Hold for my sake , and doe him not to dye , But vanquisht thine eternall bondslave make , And me , thy worthy meed , unto thy Leman take . ' XVIII His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length ...
... hold thy mortall hand for Ladies sake ; Hold for my sake , and doe him not to dye , But vanquisht thine eternall bondslave make , And me , thy worthy meed , unto thy Leman take . ' XVIII His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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