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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... true , If true , here only - and of delicious taste . Betwixt them lawns , or level downs , and flocks Grazing the tender herb , were interposed , Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store , Flowers ...
... true , If true , here only - and of delicious taste . Betwixt them lawns , or level downs , and flocks Grazing the tender herb , were interposed , Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store , Flowers ...
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... true , Whole years of weary days , besieged him close , Even to the gates and inlets of his life ! But it is true , no less , that strenuous , firm , And with a natural gladness , he maintained The citadel unconquered , and in joy Was ...
... true , Whole years of weary days , besieged him close , Even to the gates and inlets of his life ! But it is true , no less , that strenuous , firm , And with a natural gladness , he maintained The citadel unconquered , and in joy Was ...
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... true love of the token , 10 How her faith proved light , and her word was broken : Again her word and truth she plight , And I believed them again ere night . THE EVE OF ST . JOHN THE Baron of Smaylho'me rose with day , He spurr'd his ...
... true love of the token , 10 How her faith proved light , and her word was broken : Again her word and truth she plight , And I believed them again ere night . THE EVE OF ST . JOHN THE Baron of Smaylho'me rose with day , He spurr'd his ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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