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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... speech of late Now as he lent his weapon Himself he durst not hazard Nor dree a warrior's duty . The glory of a doughty deed . When he himself had girded when drunk with wine was he , - to a stouter swordsman here . his own life in the ...
... speech of late Now as he lent his weapon Himself he durst not hazard Nor dree a warrior's duty . The glory of a doughty deed . When he himself had girded when drunk with wine was he , - to a stouter swordsman here . his own life in the ...
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... speech as it is coming forth . Long and curious speeches are as fit for dispatch , as a robe or mantle with a long train is for race . Prefaces , and passages , and 15 excusations , and other speeches of reference to the person , are ...
... speech as it is coming forth . Long and curious speeches are as fit for dispatch , as a robe or mantle with a long train is for race . Prefaces , and passages , and 15 excusations , and other speeches of reference to the person , are ...
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... speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal , is more than to speak in good words or in good order . A good con- tinued speech , without a good speech of in- 5 terlocution , shews slowness ; and a ...
... speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal , is more than to speak in good words or in good order . A good con- tinued speech , without a good speech of in- 5 terlocution , shews slowness ; and a ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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