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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... learned English prose of the Sixteenth Century reached its typical development . Andrewes was an im- portant man , chaplain in ordinary to Queen Eliz- abeth , successively Bishop of Chichester , Ely , and Winchester , and one of the ...
... learned English prose of the Sixteenth Century reached its typical development . Andrewes was an im- portant man , chaplain in ordinary to Queen Eliz- abeth , successively Bishop of Chichester , Ely , and Winchester , and one of the ...
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... learned men of other parts uttered against the Inquisition , the same I should hear by as learned men at home ut- tered in time of Parliament against an order of licensing ; and that so generally that , when I had disclosed myself a ...
... learned men of other parts uttered against the Inquisition , the same I should hear by as learned men at home ut- tered in time of Parliament against an order of licensing ; and that so generally that , when I had disclosed myself a ...
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... learned at the farmer's house , the manner of fencers in England . My nurse gave me part of a straw , which I exercised as a pike , having learned the art in my youth . I was that day shown to twelve sets of com- pany , and as often ...
... learned at the farmer's house , the manner of fencers in England . My nurse gave me part of a straw , which I exercised as a pike , having learned the art in my youth . I was that day shown to twelve sets of com- pany , and as often ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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