English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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Page 231
... persons to judge severely ; but if they would produce to public view ten or twelve pieces of this nature , they would perhaps give more latitude to the rules than I have done , when , by experience , they had known how much we are ...
... persons to judge severely ; but if they would produce to public view ten or twelve pieces of this nature , they would perhaps give more latitude to the rules than I have done , when , by experience , they had known how much we are ...
Page 521
... persons , well informed as they are , had attained to any great culture of intellect or to philosophy . The case is the same still more strikingly where the persons in question are beyond dis- pute men of inferior powers and deficient ...
... persons , well informed as they are , had attained to any great culture of intellect or to philosophy . The case is the same still more strikingly where the persons in question are beyond dis- pute men of inferior powers and deficient ...
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... persons , and the events he chronicles were actual events . But even if the tendency of criticism had run the other way , this ballad would have gone far to prove itself . I can well understand the reluctance of worthy persons in this ...
... persons , and the events he chronicles were actual events . But even if the tendency of criticism had run the other way , this ballad would have gone far to prove itself . I can well understand the reluctance of worthy persons in this ...
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BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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