English Poems from Chaucer to KiplingThomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long |
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... and that it should be suitable for the purpose in hand . In some cases we have omitted an author's most representative poem because it was not suitable for our purpose , which is to catch the attention and hold the interest of the young ...
... and that it should be suitable for the purpose in hand . In some cases we have omitted an author's most representative poem because it was not suitable for our purpose , which is to catch the attention and hold the interest of the young ...
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... hand beneath the velvet glove . Spenser's chief characteristics as a poet are his passionate love of beauty and his fine gift for musical utterance , and it is by these two qualities that he has profoundly influenced all subsequent ...
... hand beneath the velvet glove . Spenser's chief characteristics as a poet are his passionate love of beauty and his fine gift for musical utterance , and it is by these two qualities that he has profoundly influenced all subsequent ...
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... hand , who was born in the same year , but all of whose best work was done after Marlowe's early death , was as great a master of com- edy as of tragedy , the greatest master indeed of the drama that the world has ever seen . He did not ...
... hand , who was born in the same year , but all of whose best work was done after Marlowe's early death , was as great a master of com- edy as of tragedy , the greatest master indeed of the drama that the world has ever seen . He did not ...
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... hand , the carefully polished form , the deliberately restrained imagination , and the direct appeal to average common sense - although to a common sense tinged with emotion - which mark these poems , show that their authors were living ...
... hand , the carefully polished form , the deliberately restrained imagination , and the direct appeal to average common sense - although to a common sense tinged with emotion - which mark these poems , show that their authors were living ...
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... . ' ' Well , I have a room , cousin Robin , ' she said , ' Which you did never see , And if you please to walk therein , You blooded by me shall be . ' 25 She took him by the lily - white hand , 8 ENGLISH POEMS Robin Hood's Death and ...
... . ' ' Well , I have a room , cousin Robin , ' she said , ' Which you did never see , And if you please to walk therein , You blooded by me shall be . ' 25 She took him by the lily - white hand , 8 ENGLISH POEMS Robin Hood's Death and ...
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