An Oxford Anthology of English ProseArnold Whitridge, John Wendell Dodds, Howard Foster Lowry Oxford University Press, 1935 - 950 pages |
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... leave I here Sir Bedivere with the hermit , that dwelled that time in a chapel beside Glastonbury , and there was his hermitage . And so they lived in their prayers , and fastings , and great abstinence . And when Queen Guenever ...
... leave I here Sir Bedivere with the hermit , that dwelled that time in a chapel beside Glastonbury , and there was his hermitage . And so they lived in their prayers , and fastings , and great abstinence . And when Queen Guenever ...
Page 147
... leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? At this I was put to an exceeding Maze . Wherefore , leaving my Cat upon the ground , I looked up to Heaven , and was as if I had , with the Eyes of my under- standing ...
... leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? At this I was put to an exceeding Maze . Wherefore , leaving my Cat upon the ground , I looked up to Heaven , and was as if I had , with the Eyes of my under- standing ...
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... leave of some of those creatures on whom I doated with a mother - like fondness , guided by nature and passion , and uncured and unhard- ened by all the doctrine of that philo- sophical school where I had learnt to bear pains and to ...
... leave of some of those creatures on whom I doated with a mother - like fondness , guided by nature and passion , and uncured and unhard- ened by all the doctrine of that philo- sophical school where I had learnt to bear pains and to ...
Contents
Le Morte Darthur | 1 |
Roger Ascham 15151568 | 19 |
Sir Thomas North | 29 |
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