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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... Human Happiness Cleopatra and Antony Song ' Ah , fading joy ' To My Dear Friend , Mr. Congreve To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Alexander's Feast ALEXANDER POPE . By G. TILLOTSON . Ode on Solitude An Essay on Criticism Elegy . The Rape of ...
... Human Happiness Cleopatra and Antony Song ' Ah , fading joy ' To My Dear Friend , Mr. Congreve To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Alexander's Feast ALEXANDER POPE . By G. TILLOTSON . Ode on Solitude An Essay on Criticism Elegy . The Rape of ...
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... human pyramid when he leaves types for Man . Man is summarized with unexcep- tionable authority in the opening lines of the second Epistle of the Essay on Man . Pope for the most part abides by what oft was thought , and his task is to ...
... human pyramid when he leaves types for Man . Man is summarized with unexcep- tionable authority in the opening lines of the second Epistle of the Essay on Man . Pope for the most part abides by what oft was thought , and his task is to ...
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... HUMAN FOLLY WHATE'ER the passion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , Not one will change his neighbour with himself . The learn'd is happy Nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given ...
... HUMAN FOLLY WHATE'ER the passion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , Not one will change his neighbour with himself . The learn'd is happy Nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given ...
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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