English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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Page 131
... mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Such sweet content , such minds , such sleep , such bliss , 5 Beggars enjoy , when princes oft do miss . The ...
... mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Such sweet content , such minds , such sleep , such bliss , 5 Beggars enjoy , when princes oft do miss . The ...
Page 160
... MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS My mind to me a kingdom is , Such present joys therein I find That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind : Though much I want which most would have , Yet still my mind forbids to crave . 6 ...
... MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS My mind to me a kingdom is , Such present joys therein I find That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind : Though much I want which most would have , Yet still my mind forbids to crave . 6 ...
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... mind but acquirement ? where shall philosophical re- pose be found , but in the consciousness and enjoyment of large intellectual possessions ? And yet this notion is , I conceive , a mis- take , and my present business is to show that ...
... mind but acquirement ? where shall philosophical re- pose be found , but in the consciousness and enjoyment of large intellectual possessions ? And yet this notion is , I conceive , a mis- take , and my present business is to show that ...
Contents
BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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