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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... Nature , and your judgment frame 70 By her just standard , which is still the same : Unerring NATURE , still divinely bright , One clear , unchang'd , and universal light , Life , force , and beauty , must to all impart , At once the ...
... Nature , and your judgment frame 70 By her just standard , which is still the same : Unerring NATURE , still divinely bright , One clear , unchang'd , and universal light , Life , force , and beauty , must to all impart , At once the ...
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... Nature from this gracious end , From burning suns where livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep ? " No , ( ' tis reply'd ) the first Almighty Cause Acts not ...
... Nature from this gracious end , From burning suns where livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep ? " No , ( ' tis reply'd ) the first Almighty Cause Acts not ...
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... nature : the diffi- culty was to make it so in the copy . I tried , and failed again and again ; I strove harder , and succeeded as I thought . The wrinkles in Rembrandt were not hard lines ; but broken and irregular . I saw the same ...
... nature : the diffi- culty was to make it so in the copy . I tried , and failed again and again ; I strove harder , and succeeded as I thought . The wrinkles in Rembrandt were not hard lines ; but broken and irregular . I saw the same ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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