Selections from English literature, by E. Lee, Book 4Elizabeth Lee 1913 |
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Page 227
... fire . The thing took wing , and now there was nothing to be seen but fires in every direction . Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district . The insur- ance - offices one and all shut up shop . People built slighter and ...
... fire . The thing took wing , and now there was nothing to be seen but fires in every direction . Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district . The insur- ance - offices one and all shut up shop . People built slighter and ...
Page 256
... fire of the enemy . Yet that fire was sharper and more constant than ever . One of the gates was beaten in : one of the bastions was laid in ruins ; but the breaches made by day were repaired by night with indefatigable activity . Every ...
... fire of the enemy . Yet that fire was sharper and more constant than ever . One of the gates was beaten in : one of the bastions was laid in ruins ; but the breaches made by day were repaired by night with indefatigable activity . Every ...
Page 305
... Fire , and the falling of tears And a measure of sliding sand From under the feet of the years ; And froth and drift of the sea ; And dust of the labouring earth ; And bodies of things to be In the houses of death and of birth ; And ...
... Fire , and the falling of tears And a measure of sliding sand From under the feet of the years ; And froth and drift of the sea ; And dust of the labouring earth ; And bodies of things to be In the houses of death and of birth ; And ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13401400 | 1 |
WILLIAM CAXTON 1422 ?1491 | 10 |
STEPHEN HAWES d 1523 | 17 |
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