English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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Page 266
... present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed , and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems almost another species . I remember several ladies , who were once very near seven foot high , that at present want some inches of five . How ...
... present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed , and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems almost another species . I remember several ladies , who were once very near seven foot high , that at present want some inches of five . How ...
Page 379
... present to the Reader must depend entirely on just notions upon this sub- ject , and , as it is in itself of the highest impor- tance to our taste and moral feelings , I cannot content myself with these detached remarks . And if , in ...
... present to the Reader must depend entirely on just notions upon this sub- ject , and , as it is in itself of the highest impor- tance to our taste and moral feelings , I cannot content myself with these detached remarks . And if , in ...
Page 595
... present time . Never did people believe anything more firmly than nine Englishmen out of ten at the present day believe that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being so very rich . Now , the use of culture is that it helps us ...
... present time . Never did people believe anything more firmly than nine Englishmen out of ten at the present day believe that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being so very rich . Now , the use of culture is that it helps us ...
Contents
BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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Apollyon atheism beauty behold Ben Jonson Beowulf breath Corydon dear death delight doth dread earth eyes fair fate fear fire flowers Ganimede Geats glory grace Grendel hand hast hath head hear heard heart Heaven Hind Horn honour Hrothgar Hygelac king kyng labour lady land light live look Lord lovers Lycidas maid man's mighty mind Muse nature never night nymph o'er pain passions play pleasure poets praise prince quoth rest round sayd sche Scyldings Sejanus shal Shalum sigh sing smile song sorrow soul sound spirit Surius sweet sylphs tears tell Thalestris thanne thee ther thine things thou art thought true truth unto whan wind wings wolde woods words wyfe wyll wyth youth ΙΟ