English Poems from Chaucer to KiplingThomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long |
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... thoughts , and images — which will become more precious as the years go by . - - We are indebted for valuable aid in the preparation of this volume to Prof. Geo . M. Harper of Princeton Uni- versity , Prof. G. L. Kittredge of Harvard ...
... thoughts , and images — which will become more precious as the years go by . - - We are indebted for valuable aid in the preparation of this volume to Prof. Geo . M. Harper of Princeton Uni- versity , Prof. G. L. Kittredge of Harvard ...
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... thought how once Theocritus had sung ' A Musical Instrument . 267 268 269 270 270 271 271 273 276 277 Mother and Poet WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY : The End of the Play CHARLES KINGSLEY : The Last Buccaneer The Old , Old Song ' GEORGE ...
... thought how once Theocritus had sung ' A Musical Instrument . 267 268 269 270 270 271 271 273 276 277 Mother and Poet WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY : The End of the Play CHARLES KINGSLEY : The Last Buccaneer The Old , Old Song ' GEORGE ...
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... thought of the Englishman of the Middle Ages at a time when that period was just drawing to its close . Chaucer is ... thoughts in flowing and harmonious verse . He was , moreover , the first true artist in English poetry , shaping the ...
... thought of the Englishman of the Middle Ages at a time when that period was just drawing to its close . Chaucer is ... thoughts in flowing and harmonious verse . He was , moreover , the first true artist in English poetry , shaping the ...
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... thought and werk . He was also a lerned man , a clerk , That Cristés gospel trewely wolde preché ; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teché . Benigne he was , and wonder diligent , And in adversitee ful pacient ; And swich he was y ...
... thought and werk . He was also a lerned man , a clerk , That Cristés gospel trewely wolde preché ; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teché . Benigne he was , and wonder diligent , And in adversitee ful pacient ; And swich he was y ...
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... thought King James and a ' his men Had won the house wi ' bow and spear ; 130 It was but twenty Scots and ten , That put a thousand in sic a stear ! Wi ' coulters , and wi ' forehammers , We garr'd the bars bang merrilie , Until we came ...
... thought King James and a ' his men Had won the house wi ' bow and spear ; 130 It was but twenty Scots and ten , That put a thousand in sic a stear ! Wi ' coulters , and wi ' forehammers , We garr'd the bars bang merrilie , Until we came ...
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