Fifteen Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and Others] ...Clarendon Press, 1941 - 503 pages Selections of the best work of the masters of English poetry from Chaucer to Arnold. Each group of selections is preceded by short essays of appreciation and summaries of the poets' lives. |
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Page 84
... dead , Horatio . Wretched queen , adieu ! You that look pale and tremble at this chance , That are but mutes or audience to this act , Had I but time , —as this fell sergeant , death , Is strict in his arrest , -O ! I could tell you ...
... dead , Horatio . Wretched queen , adieu ! You that look pale and tremble at this chance , That are but mutes or audience to this act , Had I but time , —as this fell sergeant , death , Is strict in his arrest , -O ! I could tell you ...
Page 92
... dead , and when one lives ; She's dead as earth . Lend me a looking - glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , Why , then she lives . Kent . Is this the promis'd end ? Edgar . Or image of that horror ? Albany . Fall ...
... dead , and when one lives ; She's dead as earth . Lend me a looking - glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , Why , then she lives . Kent . Is this the promis'd end ? Edgar . Or image of that horror ? Albany . Fall ...
Page 264
... dead . But the curse liveth for him in the eye of the dead men . And thou art long , and lank , and brown , As is the ribbed sea - sand . I fear thee and thy glittering eye , And thy skinny hand , so brown .'- ' Fear not , fear not ...
... dead . But the curse liveth for him in the eye of the dead men . And thou art long , and lank , and brown , As is the ribbed sea - sand . I fear thee and thy glittering eye , And thy skinny hand , so brown .'- ' Fear not , fear not ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By H S BENNETT | 8 |
The Dream | 33 |
The Fight of the Red Cross Knight and the Heathen | 54 |
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