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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... unto the Frankmen passed . the spoils of warriors dead After this battle - hewing ; and this slaughter - stead The Geatish men were holding . ] The hall rang out in glee ; before the band spake she : weal , beloved Youth ! a royal gift ...
... unto the Frankmen passed . the spoils of warriors dead After this battle - hewing ; and this slaughter - stead The Geatish men were holding . ] The hall rang out in glee ; before the band spake she : weal , beloved Youth ! a royal gift ...
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... unto fire , 25 content with their companies in effigy , which barbarous nations exact unto reality . Christians abhorred this way of obsequies , and though they sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives , detested that ...
... unto fire , 25 content with their companies in effigy , which barbarous nations exact unto reality . Christians abhorred this way of obsequies , and though they sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives , detested that ...
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... unto them- selves a fruitless continuation , and only arise unto late posterity , as emblems of mortal vanities , antidotes against pride , vain - glory , and madding vices . Pagan vain - glories which 20 unto the students of perpetuity ...
... unto them- selves a fruitless continuation , and only arise unto late posterity , as emblems of mortal vanities , antidotes against pride , vain - glory , and madding vices . Pagan vain - glories which 20 unto the students of perpetuity ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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