Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices,Oliver & Boyd, 1828 - 560 sider |
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Side iv
... fall into the hands of the young , with whom poetry is a passion , but whose tastes are still either false or unripe . Instead of pampering the insatiable appetite for novelty , and preferring fleeting fashion to permanent excellence ...
... fall into the hands of the young , with whom poetry is a passion , but whose tastes are still either false or unripe . Instead of pampering the insatiable appetite for novelty , and preferring fleeting fashion to permanent excellence ...
Side vi
... fall so directly within the scope of the pre- ceding work , as those of Surrey , Shakspeare , Chat- terton , Burns , & c . & c . On the same principle , no specimens are given from those poets whose principal writings , being sacred and ...
... fall so directly within the scope of the pre- ceding work , as those of Surrey , Shakspeare , Chat- terton , Burns , & c . & c . On the same principle , no specimens are given from those poets whose principal writings , being sacred and ...
Side 5
... falling in- to contempt among the noble and polite even before the Norman accession - the English even then send- ing their youth to France for education - were now consigned to the lowest vulgar . The Norman lan- guage was not only ...
... falling in- to contempt among the noble and polite even before the Norman accession - the English even then send- ing their youth to France for education - were now consigned to the lowest vulgar . The Norman lan- guage was not only ...
Side 60
... falls in love himself with a Queen of Greece , who saddles and bridles the amorous philosopher , and rides him round her chamber . This tale or apologue is told in that mine of stories , called the Gesta Romanorum , from which our elder ...
... falls in love himself with a Queen of Greece , who saddles and bridles the amorous philosopher , and rides him round her chamber . This tale or apologue is told in that mine of stories , called the Gesta Romanorum , from which our elder ...
Side 61
... Fall of Princes , and The Siege of Troy . The following passage , pointed out by Gray , has great sweetness and feeling : - Out of her swoone when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distrèsse , To her brother full ...
... Fall of Princes , and The Siege of Troy . The following passage , pointed out by Gray , has great sweetness and feeling : - Out of her swoone when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distrèsse , To her brother full ...
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