Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 1Gould and Lincoln, 1856 |
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... POETS OF ENGLAND . TIMES TO 1400 . occasions , it happened to be Cadmon's turn to keep guard at the stable during the night ... poem which excelled in beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded to the earnest ...
... POETS OF ENGLAND . TIMES TO 1400 . occasions , it happened to be Cadmon's turn to keep guard at the stable during the night ... poem which excelled in beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded to the earnest ...
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... poem , and proved an unfailing resource for the writers of romantic narrative for the ensuing two centuries ; nor even in a later age was its influence exhausted ; for from it Shakspeare drew the story of Lear , and Sackville that of ...
... poem , and proved an unfailing resource for the writers of romantic narrative for the ensuing two centuries ; nor even in a later age was its influence exhausted ; for from it Shakspeare drew the story of Lear , and Sackville that of ...
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... poem of the same period , ascribed to ROBERT LONGLANDE , a secular priest , also shows very expressively the progress which was made , about the middle of the fourteenth century , towards a literary style . This poem , in many points of ...
... poem of the same period , ascribed to ROBERT LONGLANDE , a secular priest , also shows very expressively the progress which was made , about the middle of the fourteenth century , towards a literary style . This poem , in many points of ...
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... poem of the Dream . Chaucer and ' time - honoured Gaunt ' became closely connected . The former mar- ried Philippa ... poets ever met , the Italian journey of Chaucer , and the fame of Petrarch , must have kindled his poetical ambition ...
... poem of the Dream . Chaucer and ' time - honoured Gaunt ' became closely connected . The former mar- ried Philippa ... poets ever met , the Italian journey of Chaucer , and the fame of Petrarch , must have kindled his poetical ambition ...
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... poems are the Flower and Leaf , a spirited and graceful allegorical poem , with some fine description ; and Troilus ... poem , and it was long po- pular . Warton and every subsequent critic have quoted with just admiration the passage ...
... poems are the Flower and Leaf , a spirited and graceful allegorical poem , with some fine description ; and Troilus ... poem , and it was long po- pular . Warton and every subsequent critic have quoted with just admiration the passage ...
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afterwards Anglo-Saxon anon beauty Ben Jonson Cædmon Cæsar called Canterbury Tales Chaucer court dance death delight doth dread Earl England English eyes Faery Queen fair Fawdon fayre fear flowers frae genius GEOFFREY CHAUCER give gold grace gude hand hast hath heard heart heaven Henry Henry VIII hire holy honour JOHN GOWER Jonson king lady language Latin Layamon learned live look Lord merry micht mind mony nature never night noble Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor Queen rede reign rich richt Robert Curthose saith Saracens Scotland Shakspeare sing song soul sould Discretion Spenser St Serf sweet Tabard tell thee ther thine thing thought tongue translation truth tway unto verse Wace wald Wallace wanton wassail weel Wel coude Wickliffe wind wine withouten wolde words worthy writers youth