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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... seen the grete fight , Unto hir reste wenten they at night . And on the morwe , whan that day gan springe , Of hors and harneys , noyse and clateringe Ther was in hostelryës al aboute , And to the paleys rood ther many a route Of lordes ...
... seen the grete fight , Unto hir reste wenten they at night . And on the morwe , whan that day gan springe , Of hors and harneys , noyse and clateringe Ther was in hostelryës al aboute , And to the paleys rood ther many a route Of lordes ...
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... seen upon the stage . In the abstract , they are very disa- greeable characters : it is only while living that they are " the best of kings . " It is their power , their splendour , it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of ...
... seen upon the stage . In the abstract , they are very disa- greeable characters : it is only while living that they are " the best of kings . " It is their power , their splendour , it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of ...
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... seen what those results are . . . ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING ( From Table Talk ) I had to make the transition from a strong light to as dark a shade , preserving the masses , but gradually softening off the inter- mediate parts . It ...
... seen what those results are . . . ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING ( From Table Talk ) I had to make the transition from a strong light to as dark a shade , preserving the masses , but gradually softening off the inter- mediate parts . It ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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