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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 61
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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Samuel Rogers and His Circle

Richard Ellis Roberts - 1910 - 360 pages
...Elizabethan prose, one of the rare sun-lit islands in that great ocean Raleigh's History of the World : — " O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...have dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world have flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the...
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An Anthology of English Prose: (1332 to 1740)

Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 272 pages
...makes them crie, complaine, and repent ; yea, even to hate their forepassed happinesse. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar ; a naked...beggar, which hath interest in nothing but in the gravell that fills his mouth. He holds a glasse before the eyes of the most beautifull, and makes them...
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Rhetoric and the Study of Literature

Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1913 - 432 pages
...instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their fore-passed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked...deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. — RALEIGH 7. Of a sudden the guns on the slope roared out a message of warning. A splittering sound...
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Rhetoric and the Study of Literature

Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1913 - 430 pages
...instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their fore-passed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked...their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it.—RALEIGH and thumping of gigantic machinery, complications among the smaller stars. They were...
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An Outline of the History of English Literature ...: The Renaissance

Ernesto Cesare Longobardi - 1913 - 270 pages
...makes them crie, complaine, and repent ; yea, even to hate their fore-passed happinesse. He takes the account of the rich and proves him a beggar ; a naked beggar which hath interest in nothing but in the gravell that fils his mouth. He holds a glasse before the eyes of the most beautifull, and makes them...
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Sir Walter Ralegh: "the Shepherd of the Ocean;" Selections from His Poetry ...

Sir Walter Raleigh - 1916 - 150 pages
...instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked...none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the...
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Sir Walter Ralegh: "the Shepherd of the Ocean;" Selections from His Poetry ...

Sir Walter Raleigh - 1916 - 146 pages
...instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the. account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked...deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared,...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the of hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world...
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Proceedings of the State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina

North Carolina Literary and Historical Association - 1919 - 172 pages
...instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked...deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared,...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...instant, makes them cry. complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the e afraid ! Enough now, if the Right And Good and Infinite...no dispute From fools that crowded youth, nor let 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared,...
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