Great English Writers, Volume 1Oscar James Campbell, Hardin Craig, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Joseph Morris Thomas F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 A chronological rearrangement, with many additions, of the material included in the editors' Great English poets and Great English prose writers. cf. Pref. |
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... arms ? Yet not for those , Nor what the potent Victor in his rage Can else inflict , do I repent , or change , Though changed in outward lustre , that fixed mind , And high disdain from sense of injured merit , That with the Mightiest ...
... arms ? Yet not for those , Nor what the potent Victor in his rage Can else inflict , do I repent , or change , Though changed in outward lustre , that fixed mind , And high disdain from sense of injured merit , That with the Mightiest ...
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... arms , to arms ! " the fierce Virago cries , And swift as lightning to the combat flies . All side in parties , and begin th ' attack ; Fans clap , silks rustle , and tough whalebones crack ; Heroes ' and Heroines ' shouts confus'dly ...
... arms , to arms ! " the fierce Virago cries , And swift as lightning to the combat flies . All side in parties , and begin th ' attack ; Fans clap , silks rustle , and tough whalebones crack ; Heroes ' and Heroines ' shouts confus'dly ...
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... arm'd like England's sons , But bore the levin - darting guns ; Buff coats , all frounced and ' broider'd o'er , And ... arms was seen ; With favour in his crest , or glove , Memorial of his ladye - love . 330 So rode they forth in fair ...
... arm'd like England's sons , But bore the levin - darting guns ; Buff coats , all frounced and ' broider'd o'er , And ... arms was seen ; With favour in his crest , or glove , Memorial of his ladye - love . 330 So rode they forth in fair ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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