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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... late , So tossed was in fortunes cruell freakes : And all the while salt teares bedeawd the hearers cheaks . XVII Then sayd that royall Pere in sober wise ; ' Deare Sonne , great beene the evils which ye bore From first to last in your late ...
... late , So tossed was in fortunes cruell freakes : And all the while salt teares bedeawd the hearers cheaks . XVII Then sayd that royall Pere in sober wise ; ' Deare Sonne , great beene the evils which ye bore From first to last in your late ...
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... late , Not sedulous by nature to indite Wars , hitherto the only argument Heroic deemed , chief mastery to dissect With long and tedious havoc fabled knights 30 In battles feigned ( the better fortitude Of patience and heroic martyrdom ...
... late , Not sedulous by nature to indite Wars , hitherto the only argument Heroic deemed , chief mastery to dissect With long and tedious havoc fabled knights 30 In battles feigned ( the better fortitude Of patience and heroic martyrdom ...
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... Late , late yestreen I saw the new Moon , With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear , I fear , my Master dear ! We shall have a deadly storm . Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence . I 90 WELL ! If the Bard was weather - wise , who made The ...
... Late , late yestreen I saw the new Moon , With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear , I fear , my Master dear ! We shall have a deadly storm . Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence . I 90 WELL ! If the Bard was weather - wise , who made The ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
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