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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... soon Would highth recal high thoughts , how soon unsay What feigned submission swore ! Ease would recant Vows made in pain , as violent and void ( For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep ) ...
... soon Would highth recal high thoughts , how soon unsay What feigned submission swore ! Ease would recant Vows made in pain , as violent and void ( For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep ) ...
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... Soon in his saddle sate he fast , And soon the steep descent he past , Soon cross'd the sounding barbican , And soon the Teviot side he won . Eastward the wooded path he rode , Green hazels o'er his basnet nod ; He passed the Peel of ...
... Soon in his saddle sate he fast , And soon the steep descent he past , Soon cross'd the sounding barbican , And soon the Teviot side he won . Eastward the wooded path he rode , Green hazels o'er his basnet nod ; He passed the Peel of ...
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... Soon as the palfrey felt the weight Of that ill - omen'd elfish freight , He bolted , sprung , and rear'd amain , Nor heeded bit , nor curb , nor rein . It cost Watt Tinlinn mickle toil To drive him but a Scottish mile ; But as a ...
... Soon as the palfrey felt the weight Of that ill - omen'd elfish freight , He bolted , sprung , and rear'd amain , Nor heeded bit , nor curb , nor rein . It cost Watt Tinlinn mickle toil To drive him but a Scottish mile ; But as a ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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