English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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Page 583
... leaves his lamp unlighted , and is contented with a penny print ; the more religious one has his print coloured and set in a little shrine with a gilded or figured fringe , with perhaps a faded flower or two on each side , and his lamp ...
... leaves his lamp unlighted , and is contented with a penny print ; the more religious one has his print coloured and set in a little shrine with a gilded or figured fringe , with perhaps a faded flower or two on each side , and his lamp ...
Page 644
... leaves were not more worth Than those wherefrom thy light of musing mirth Shone , till each leaf whereon thy pen would run Breathed life , and all its breath was benison . Beloved beyond all names of English birth , More dear than ...
... leaves were not more worth Than those wherefrom thy light of musing mirth Shone , till each leaf whereon thy pen would run Breathed life , and all its breath was benison . Beloved beyond all names of English birth , More dear than ...
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... leaves , the immense strength of the oak ex- panding , the unalloyed joy of finch and black- bird ; from all of them ... leaf shadows the formed maze is for me , though the motion is theirs ; the flowers with a thousand faces have ...
... leaves , the immense strength of the oak ex- panding , the unalloyed joy of finch and black- bird ; from all of them ... leaf shadows the formed maze is for me , though the motion is theirs ; the flowers with a thousand faces have ...
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BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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