Selections from English literature, by E. Lee, Book 4Elizabeth Lee 1913 |
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Page 95
... whole nations fare the worse . We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men , how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide ...
... whole nations fare the worse . We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men , how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide ...
Page 259
... whole circuit of the ramparts . The Irish guns con- tinued to roar all night ; and all night the bells of the rescued city made answer to the Irish guns with a peal of joyous defiance . Through the whole of the thirty - first of July ...
... whole circuit of the ramparts . The Irish guns con- tinued to roar all night ; and all night the bells of the rescued city made answer to the Irish guns with a peal of joyous defiance . Through the whole of the thirty - first of July ...
Page 279
... whole centuries of folly , noise and sin ! Shut them in , With their triumphs and their glories and the rest ! Love is best . PROSPICE ! FEAR death ? to feel the fog in my throat , The mist in my face , When the snows begin , and the ...
... whole centuries of folly , noise and sin ! Shut them in , With their triumphs and their glories and the rest ! Love is best . PROSPICE ! FEAR death ? to feel the fog in my throat , The mist in my face , When the snows begin , and the ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13401400 | 1 |
WILLIAM CAXTON 1422 ?1491 | 10 |
STEPHEN HAWES d 1523 | 17 |
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