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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... wise , Since Satan fell , whom folly overthrew , And now returns him from his prison scaped , Gravely in doubt whether to hold them wise Or not who ask what boldness brought him hither Unlicensed from his bounds in Hell pre- scribed ...
... wise , Since Satan fell , whom folly overthrew , And now returns him from his prison scaped , Gravely in doubt whether to hold them wise Or not who ask what boldness brought him hither Unlicensed from his bounds in Hell pre- scribed ...
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... wise man , like a good refiner , can gather gold out of the drossiest vol- ume , and that a fool will be a fool with the 15 best book , yea or without book ; there is no reason that we should deprive a wise man of any advantage to his ...
... wise man , like a good refiner , can gather gold out of the drossiest vol- ume , and that a fool will be a fool with the 15 best book , yea or without book ; there is no reason that we should deprive a wise man of any advantage to his ...
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... wise affright , Saw seams of wounds , dishonest to the sight : In contemplation of whose ugly scars They curs'd the memory of civil wars . The moderate sort of men , thus qualified , Inclin'd the balance to the better side ; And David's ...
... wise affright , Saw seams of wounds , dishonest to the sight : In contemplation of whose ugly scars They curs'd the memory of civil wars . The moderate sort of men , thus qualified , Inclin'd the balance to the better side ; And David's ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
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