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, |
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... fire by Gray , and the fine specimens of poetry which remain of the Welsh bards , would lead us to form a higher estimate of the poetry of the kindred and neighbouring race of England , than any thing in the early annals of the country ...
... fire by Gray , and the fine specimens of poetry which remain of the Welsh bards , would lead us to form a higher estimate of the poetry of the kindred and neighbouring race of England , than any thing in the early annals of the country ...
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... fire . I have watched all night on the beach where the seagulls , whose plumes glitter , sport on the bed of billows , and where herb . age growing in a solitary place is of a deep green . * That is , it was the hour of noon . tended ...
... fire . I have watched all night on the beach where the seagulls , whose plumes glitter , sport on the bed of billows , and where herb . age growing in a solitary place is of a deep green . * That is , it was the hour of noon . tended ...
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... fire - red cherubinnès ( d ) face , For sausèfleme ( e ) he was , with eyen narwe . ( f ) As hote he was , and likerous as a sparwe , With scalled browès blake , and pilled berd : Of his visage children were sore aferd . Ther n'as ...
... fire - red cherubinnès ( d ) face , For sausèfleme ( e ) he was , with eyen narwe . ( f ) As hote he was , and likerous as a sparwe , With scalled browès blake , and pilled berd : Of his visage children were sore aferd . Ther n'as ...
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... fire sparkling . His crispè here like ringes ( ) was yronne , And yt was yalowe , glittering as the sonne . His nose was high , his eyin bright citryn , ( m ) Ruddy his lippes , his colour was sangyn . And a fewe frekles in his face ...
... fire sparkling . His crispè here like ringes ( ) was yronne , And yt was yalowe , glittering as the sonne . His nose was high , his eyin bright citryn , ( m ) Ruddy his lippes , his colour was sangyn . And a fewe frekles in his face ...
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... fire of Chaucer , he writes with considerable amenity for the rude period in which he lived . A part of his works were printed by Caxton in 1483 , and are thus among the earliest specimens of Eng- lish typography . Gower was blind for ...
... fire of Chaucer , he writes with considerable amenity for the rude period in which he lived . A part of his works were printed by Caxton in 1483 , and are thus among the earliest specimens of Eng- lish typography . Gower was blind for ...
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