English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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... seemed not so riotous as those above them , nor yet so tame as those below : to judge by their looks , many of them seemed strangers there as well as myself . They were chiefly employed , during this period of expectation , in eating ...
... seemed not so riotous as those above them , nor yet so tame as those below : to judge by their looks , many of them seemed strangers there as well as myself . They were chiefly employed , during this period of expectation , in eating ...
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... seemed to seize , He dimly saw , although the western breeze , And years of biting frost and washing rain , Had made the carver's labour well - nigh vain . But this , though perished sore , and worn away , 64 He noted well , because it ...
... seemed to seize , He dimly saw , although the western breeze , And years of biting frost and washing rain , Had made the carver's labour well - nigh vain . But this , though perished sore , and worn away , 64 He noted well , because it ...
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... seemed suddenly to awake in him the whole force of that sentiment which Goethe has called the Weltschmerz , 2 and in which the con- centrated sorrow of the world seemed suddenly to lie heavy upon him . A book lay in an old book - case ...
... seemed suddenly to awake in him the whole force of that sentiment which Goethe has called the Weltschmerz , 2 and in which the con- centrated sorrow of the world seemed suddenly to lie heavy upon him . A book lay in an old book - case ...
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BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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