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From Maundevile to Thackeray Arthur Howard Galton. A PREFACE . HE purpose of this book is to give.
From Maundevile to Thackeray Arthur Howard Galton. A PREFACE . HE purpose of this book is to give.
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... give fair specimens of English prose as it has been written during the last five hundred years , I was not forced , by an array of names , to spoil and mutilate the several extracts . It was impossible , from the nature of the case , to ...
... give fair specimens of English prose as it has been written during the last five hundred years , I was not forced , by an array of names , to spoil and mutilate the several extracts . It was impossible , from the nature of the case , to ...
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... give an adequate , or even an useful , criticism of their style and matter . In an enterprise like the Camelot Series , it seems desirable to have a single aim , and that aim quite simple . The aim is , usually , to give the text of ...
... give an adequate , or even an useful , criticism of their style and matter . In an enterprise like the Camelot Series , it seems desirable to have a single aim , and that aim quite simple . The aim is , usually , to give the text of ...
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... give us these Alcyon days , which yet we enjoy , and beseech thy merciful goodness still they may continue . But here also ( alack ) what should we say ? so many enemies we have , that envy us this rest and tranquillity , and do what ...
... give us these Alcyon days , which yet we enjoy , and beseech thy merciful goodness still they may continue . But here also ( alack ) what should we say ? so many enemies we have , that envy us this rest and tranquillity , and do what ...
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... give thee thanks , so like- wise we beseech thy heavenly majesty , that , as thou hast given her unto us , and hast from so manifold dangers preserved her , before she was queen , so now , in her royal estate , she may con- tinually be ...
... give thee thanks , so like- wise we beseech thy heavenly majesty , that , as thou hast given her unto us , and hast from so manifold dangers preserved her , before she was queen , so now , in her royal estate , she may con- tinually be ...
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