English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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Page 151
... pleasure , as with poets , nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open day - light , that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world ...
... pleasure , as with poets , nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open day - light , that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world ...
Page 380
... pleasure ; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry , as they express it , as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for Rope - dancing , or Frontiniac 1or Sherry . Aris- totle , I have been told , hath said ...
... pleasure ; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry , as they express it , as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for Rope - dancing , or Frontiniac 1or Sherry . Aris- totle , I have been told , hath said ...
Page 398
... Pleasure , and that of the highest and most permanent kind , may result from the attainment of the end ; but it is not itself the immediate end . In other works the communication of pleasure may be the immediate purpose ; and though ...
... Pleasure , and that of the highest and most permanent kind , may result from the attainment of the end ; but it is not itself the immediate end . In other works the communication of pleasure may be the immediate purpose ; and though ...
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BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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