Major British WritersGeorge Bagshawe Harrison Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 - 1076 pages Includes Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, Donne, Milton, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Shaw, Conrad, Yeats, and Eliot. |
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... Houyhnhnms train up their youth to strength , speed , and hardiness , by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills , and over hard stony grounds ; and when they are all in a sweat , they are ordered to leap over head and ...
... Houyhnhnms train up their youth to strength , speed , and hardiness , by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills , and over hard stony grounds ; and when they are all in a sweat , they are ordered to leap over head and ...
Page 382
... Houyhnhnms in servi- tude : that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo , only a little more civilized by some tincture of reason , which however was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race , as the Yahoos of their ...
... Houyhnhnms in servi- tude : that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo , only a little more civilized by some tincture of reason , which however was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race , as the Yahoos of their ...
Page 385
... Houyhnhnms , and hear myself ridiculed on that account without the least morti- fication . In the midst of all this ... Houyhnhnms ' cattle , as be- ing naturally of the ravenous kind , and averse from labor . My master added , that he ...
... Houyhnhnms , and hear myself ridiculed on that account without the least morti- fication . In the midst of all this ... Houyhnhnms ' cattle , as be- ing naturally of the ravenous kind , and averse from labor . My master added , that he ...
Contents
Note on Chaucers Language | 6 |
Introduction | 14 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson | 25 |
Copyright | |
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