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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... face ? Why livestow so longe in so greet age ? ' This olde man gan loke in his visage , And seyde thus , ' for I ne can nat finde A man , though that I walked in - to Inde , Neither in citee nor in no village , That wolde chaunge his ...
... face ? Why livestow so longe in so greet age ? ' This olde man gan loke in his visage , And seyde thus , ' for I ne can nat finde A man , though that I walked in - to Inde , Neither in citee nor in no village , That wolde chaunge his ...
Page 314
... face , Though on all other things with looks intense She gazed , but none she ever could retrace ; Food she refused , and raiment ; no pretence Avail'd for either ; neither change of place , Nor time , nor skill , nor remedy , could ...
... face , Though on all other things with looks intense She gazed , but none she ever could retrace ; Food she refused , and raiment ; no pretence Avail'd for either ; neither change of place , Nor time , nor skill , nor remedy , could ...
Page 375
... face was large as that of Memphian sphinx , Pedestal'd haply in a palace court , When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore . But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful , if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than ...
... face was large as that of Memphian sphinx , Pedestal'd haply in a palace court , When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore . But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful , if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than ...
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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