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, by J. J. |
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... till a comparatively late period of our history , it owed no direct obligation . It is , however , labour lost to investigate the ori- gin of what has no longer an existence ; for much more is now known of the poetry of every contem ...
... till a comparatively late period of our history , it owed no direct obligation . It is , however , labour lost to investigate the ori- gin of what has no longer an existence ; for much more is now known of the poetry of every contem ...
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... till , in the lapse of years , the lan- guage of the Normans and the Saxons , having passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman - Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of strangely - mixed origin , which has ga ...
... till , in the lapse of years , the lan- guage of the Normans and the Saxons , having passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman - Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of strangely - mixed origin , which has ga ...
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... till the reign of Elizabeth . " It contains more true pathos than all the love - stories - which were composed for two cen- turies after its appearance . Troilus is supposed to have first seen Creseide in a temple ; and in the solitude ...
... till the reign of Elizabeth . " It contains more true pathos than all the love - stories - which were composed for two cen- turies after its appearance . Troilus is supposed to have first seen Creseide in a temple ; and in the solitude ...
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... till Jesu Crist him hent , ( g ) He had a crois of laton ( h ) ful of stones , And in a glas he haddè piggès bones . But with these relikes , whannè that he fond A pourè persone dwelling up on lond , Upon a day he gat him more moneie ...
... till Jesu Crist him hent , ( g ) He had a crois of laton ( h ) ful of stones , And in a glas he haddè piggès bones . But with these relikes , whannè that he fond A pourè persone dwelling up on lond , Upon a day he gat him more moneie ...
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... till near the splen- did period of the reign of Elizabeth , there is a dreary void in English poetry , illumined only by those distant northern lights that streamed from Scotland . The first of these , in point of precedence and ...
... till near the splen- did period of the reign of Elizabeth , there is a dreary void in English poetry , illumined only by those distant northern lights that streamed from Scotland . The first of these , in point of precedence and ...
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