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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... noble theatre as it was 1030 I dar wel seyn that in this world ther nas . The circuït a myle was aboute , Walled of ... noble wyse . But yet hadde I foryeten to devyse The noble kerving and the portreitures , The shap , the contenaunce ...
... noble theatre as it was 1030 I dar wel seyn that in this world ther nas . The circuït a myle was aboute , Walled of ... noble wyse . But yet hadde I foryeten to devyse The noble kerving and the portreitures , The shap , the contenaunce ...
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... noble Martial crew , 400 That famous harde atchievements still pur- sew ; Yet never any could that girlond win , But all still shronke , and still he greater grew : All they , for want of faith , or guilt of sin , The pitteous pray of ...
... noble Martial crew , 400 That famous harde atchievements still pur- sew ; Yet never any could that girlond win , But all still shronke , and still he greater grew : All they , for want of faith , or guilt of sin , The pitteous pray of ...
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... noble Dame , perchance you ask , How these two hostile armies met ? Deeming it were no easy task To keep the truce which here was set ; Where martial spirits , all on fire , Breathed only blood and mortal ire.- By mutual inroads ...
... noble Dame , perchance you ask , How these two hostile armies met ? Deeming it were no easy task To keep the truce which here was set ; Where martial spirits , all on fire , Breathed only blood and mortal ire.- By mutual inroads ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
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