The Retrospective Review: Consisting of Criticisms Upon, Analyses Of, and Extracts from Curious, Valuable, and Scarce Old Books, 1. köideJ. R. Smith., 1853 Consisting of criticisms upon, analyses of, and extracts from curious, valuable, and scarce old books. |
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... Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border . 1812 . National Characteristics in the Sixteenth Century Borde's ( Andrew ) Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge . 1542 . The Scottish Colony of Darien , 1698-1700 History of Caledonia , or the Scots ...
... Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border . 1812 . National Characteristics in the Sixteenth Century Borde's ( Andrew ) Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge . 1542 . The Scottish Colony of Darien , 1698-1700 History of Caledonia , or the Scots ...
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... Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border . Edinburgh : 1812 . By WALTER SCOTT , Esq . 3 vols . WHEN Bishop Percy published his ' Reliques of Ancient English Poetry , ' he probably little imagined the effect his work was to produce on the ...
... Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border . Edinburgh : 1812 . By WALTER SCOTT , Esq . 3 vols . WHEN Bishop Percy published his ' Reliques of Ancient English Poetry , ' he probably little imagined the effect his work was to produce on the ...
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... Minstrelsy . " In early youth , " says he , I had been an eager student of Ballad poetry , and the tree is still in my recollection beneath which I lay , and first entered upon the enchanting perusal of Percy's ' Reliques of Ancient ...
... Minstrelsy . " In early youth , " says he , I had been an eager student of Ballad poetry , and the tree is still in my recollection beneath which I lay , and first entered upon the enchanting perusal of Percy's ' Reliques of Ancient ...
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... minstrelsy more successfully than the same poet , as every one acquainted with his exquisite description of the dying girl , “ a mother but no wife , " seated on the knee of her lover but not her husband , in the churchyard , speaking ...
... minstrelsy more successfully than the same poet , as every one acquainted with his exquisite description of the dying girl , “ a mother but no wife , " seated on the knee of her lover but not her husband , in the churchyard , speaking ...
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... minstrelsy . There is perhaps no finer imitation of the wild musical wail of the old ballad than Hamilton's ' Busk ye , busk ye , my bonny bonny bride , ' founded on the Dowie Dens o'Yarrow . ' These and the ' Douglas Tragedie ' have ...
... minstrelsy . There is perhaps no finer imitation of the wild musical wail of the old ballad than Hamilton's ' Busk ye , busk ye , my bonny bonny bride , ' founded on the Dowie Dens o'Yarrow . ' These and the ' Douglas Tragedie ' have ...
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