The Best in Their KindRichards Press, 1949 - 456 pages |
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... lines , and to the final period belongs The Canterbury Tales , designed about 1387 and printed first by Caxton in 1475 . It is possible of course to read these poems in a modernized form , but Chaucer's English is on the whole easily ...
... lines , and to the final period belongs The Canterbury Tales , designed about 1387 and printed first by Caxton in 1475 . It is possible of course to read these poems in a modernized form , but Chaucer's English is on the whole easily ...
Page 61
... lines . It turns our eyes into our very souls and reveals our own hidden depth as Hamlet revealed her true character to his mother . Hamlet's tragedy is the tragedy of the whole thinking world . It touches all our consciences . Its lines ...
... lines . It turns our eyes into our very souls and reveals our own hidden depth as Hamlet revealed her true character to his mother . Hamlet's tragedy is the tragedy of the whole thinking world . It touches all our consciences . Its lines ...
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... lines of this sort : . " To err is human , to forgive divine . " " For fools rush in where angels fear to tread ... line too labours , and the words move slow : Not so , when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending ...
... lines of this sort : . " To err is human , to forgive divine . " " For fools rush in where angels fear to tread ... line too labours , and the words move slow : Not so , when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending ...
Contents
SIR THOMAS MALORY 1413?1470 | 18 |
EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 24 |
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 15641593 | 38 |
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