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 pages |
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... known under the name of Beauties , Elegant Extracts , & c . & c . Instead of " orient pearls at random strung , " among which are sometimes interspersed not a few French paste- beads , recommended solely by fashion , smooth- and glitter ...
... known under the name of Beauties , Elegant Extracts , & c . & c . Instead of " orient pearls at random strung , " among which are sometimes interspersed not a few French paste- beads , recommended solely by fashion , smooth- and glitter ...
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... place is necessarily occupied by yet nobler names by those of Dunbar , James I. , Douglas , Barbour , and Lyndsay - names that ought to be better known among us . To that ancient poetry , which forms the grace and ADVERTISEMENT . V.
... place is necessarily occupied by yet nobler names by those of Dunbar , James I. , Douglas , Barbour , and Lyndsay - names that ought to be better known among us . To that ancient poetry , which forms the grace and ADVERTISEMENT . V.
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... known source , save the classic poetry of Greece and Rome , to which , 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 ...
... known source , save the classic poetry of Greece and Rome , to which , 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 ...
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... known , save to antiquarians and scholars , a specimen of them may be acceptable as a literary curi- osity . SONG BY TALIESSEN , A WELSH BARD OF THE SIXTH CEN- TURY , ON A BATTLE FOUGHT WITH THE SAXONS NEAR CAT- TRAETH , IN WHICH ALL ...
... known , save to antiquarians and scholars , a specimen of them may be acceptable as a literary curi- osity . SONG BY TALIESSEN , A WELSH BARD OF THE SIXTH CEN- TURY , ON A BATTLE FOUGHT WITH THE SAXONS NEAR CAT- TRAETH , IN WHICH ALL ...
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... known as an author for more than half of that time . The birth of Chaucer , about the year 1328 , is not much below the period when the complete amalgamation of the Norman and Saxon races took place , and when the new language ...
... known as an author for more than half of that time . The birth of Chaucer , about the year 1328 , is not much below the period when the complete amalgamation of the Norman and Saxon races took place , and when the new language ...
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