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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... hope your Grace will deal with his Majesty , that , as I have tasted of his mercy , I may also taste of his bounty . Your Grace , I know , for a business of a private man , 20 cannot win yourself more honour ; and I hope I shall yet ...
... hope your Grace will deal with his Majesty , that , as I have tasted of his mercy , I may also taste of his bounty . Your Grace , I know , for a business of a private man , 20 cannot win yourself more honour ; and I hope I shall yet ...
Page 362
... hope excluded thus , behold , instead Of us , outcast , exiled , his new delight , Mankind , created , and for him this World ! So farewell hope , and , with hope , farewell fear , Farewell remorse ! All good to me is lost ; Evil , be ...
... hope excluded thus , behold , instead Of us , outcast , exiled , his new delight , Mankind , created , and for him this World ! So farewell hope , and , with hope , farewell fear , Farewell remorse ! All good to me is lost ; Evil , be ...
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... Hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be blest : The soul , uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor ...
... Hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be blest : The soul , uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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