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
... tell you- But let it be . Horatio , I am dead ; Thou liv'st ; report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied . Never believe it ; Horatio . I am more an antique Roman than a Dane : Here's yet some liquor left . Hamlet . As thou'rt a ...
... tell you- But let it be . Horatio , I am dead ; Thou liv'st ; report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied . Never believe it ; Horatio . I am more an antique Roman than a Dane : Here's yet some liquor left . Hamlet . As thou'rt a ...
Page 368
... tell me where is Madeline , ' said he , ' O tell me , Angela , by the holy loom Which none but secret sisterhood may see , When they St. Agnes ' wool are weaving piously . ' ' St. Agnes ! Ah ! it is St. Agnes ' Eve- Yet men will murder ...
... tell me where is Madeline , ' said he , ' O tell me , Angela , by the holy loom Which none but secret sisterhood may see , When they St. Agnes ' wool are weaving piously . ' ' St. Agnes ! Ah ! it is St. Agnes ' Eve- Yet men will murder ...
Page 376
... tell me if this feeble shape Is Saturn's ; tell me , if thou hear'st the voice Of Saturn ; tell me , if this wrinkling brow , Naked and bare of its great diadem , Peers like the front of Saturn . Who had power To make me desolate ...
... tell me if this feeble shape Is Saturn's ; tell me , if thou hear'st the voice Of Saturn ; tell me , if this wrinkling brow , Naked and bare of its great diadem , Peers like the front of Saturn . Who had power To make me desolate ...
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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