The London Book of English VerseEyre & Spottiswoode, 1949 - 874 pages |
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Page 364
... mind , because the minds that I have loved , The sort of beauty that I have approved , Prosper but little , has dried up of late , Yet knows that to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief . If there's no hatred in a mind ...
... mind , because the minds that I have loved , The sort of beauty that I have approved , Prosper but little , has dried up of late , Yet knows that to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief . If there's no hatred in a mind ...
Page 501
... mind to me a kingdom is , Such present joys therein I find , That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind . Though much I want which most would have , Yet still my mind forbids to crave . No princely pomp , no ...
... mind to me a kingdom is , Such present joys therein I find , That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind . Though much I want which most would have , Yet still my mind forbids to crave . No princely pomp , no ...
Page 827
... mind on every subject feeds ; She Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart reads ; Locke entertains her , and she wonders why His famous Essay is consider'd dry . For her amusement in her vacant hours Are earths and rocks , and animals and flowers ...
... mind on every subject feeds ; She Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart reads ; Locke entertains her , and she wonders why His famous Essay is consider'd dry . For her amusement in her vacant hours Are earths and rocks , and animals and flowers ...
Contents
Geoffrey Chaucer The Prioresss Tale | 12 |
Christopher Marlowe From Hero and Leander | 13 |
William Shakespeare The Courser and the Jennet from | 14 |
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