An Oxford Anthology of English ProseArnold Whitridge, John Wendell Dodds, Howard Foster Lowry Oxford University Press, 1935 - 950 pages |
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Page 368
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
Page 604
... once Century , once more a giant Original Man ; one of those men who reach down to the perennial Deeps , who take rank with the Heroic among men : and he was born in a poor Ayrshire hut . The largest soul of all the British lands came ...
... once Century , once more a giant Original Man ; one of those men who reach down to the perennial Deeps , who take rank with the Heroic among men : and he was born in a poor Ayrshire hut . The largest soul of all the British lands came ...
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... once contrary , as it were , to expectation , and yet because they have al- ready done other things . No dramatist should let his audience know what is com- ing ; but neither should he suffer his char- acters to act without making his ...
... once contrary , as it were , to expectation , and yet because they have al- ready done other things . No dramatist should let his audience know what is com- ing ; but neither should he suffer his char- acters to act without making his ...
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Le Morte Darthur | 1 |
Roger Ascham 15151568 | 19 |
Sir Thomas North | 29 |
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