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 132
... mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell , a hell of heav'n . What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be , all but less than he Whom thunder ...
... mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell , a hell of heav'n . What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be , all but less than he Whom thunder ...
Page 173
... mind , What the weak head with strongest bias rules , IS PRIDE , the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever Nature has in worth denied , She gives in large recruits of needless pride ; For as in bodies , thus in souls we find What ...
... mind , What the weak head with strongest bias rules , IS PRIDE , the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever Nature has in worth denied , She gives in large recruits of needless pride ; For as in bodies , thus in souls we find What ...
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... mind resorts , in chase of terms Though apt , yet coy , and difficult to win- T ' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind , and hold them fast , And force them sit till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the ...
... mind resorts , in chase of terms Though apt , yet coy , and difficult to win- T ' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind , and hold them fast , And force them sit till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the ...
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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