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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The Runic Odes , translated with so much of the true Bardic 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 ...
The Runic Odes , translated with so much of the true Bardic 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 ...
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Llewelyn is a hero that setteth castles on 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 ...
Llewelyn is a hero that setteth castles on 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 ...
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A Sompnour was ther with us in that place , That had a fire - red cherubinnės ( d )
face , For sausèfleme ( e ) he was , with eyen narwe . ( S ) As hote he was , and
likerous as a sparwe , With scalled browès blake , and pilled berd : Of his visage
...
A Sompnour was ther with us in that place , That had a fire - red cherubinnės ( d )
face , For sausèfleme ( e ) he was , with eyen narwe . ( S ) As hote he was , and
likerous as a sparwe , With scalled browès blake , and pilled berd : Of his visage
...
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A mantlet upon his shuldères hanging , Bretfull ( k ) of rubies redde as fire
sparkling . His crispè here like ringes ( l ) was yronne , And yt was yalowe ,
glittering as the sonne . His nose was high , his eyin bright citryn , ( m ) Ruddy his
lippes , his ...
A mantlet upon his shuldères hanging , Bretfull ( k ) of rubies redde as fire
sparkling . His crispè here like ringes ( l ) was yronne , And yt was yalowe ,
glittering as the sonne . His nose was high , his eyin bright citryn , ( m ) Ruddy his
lippes , his ...
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Without a spark of the 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 English typography . Gower ...
Without a spark of the 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 English typography . Gower ...
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| Title | 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, |
| Author | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Editor | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Contributor | Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Publisher | Oliver & Boyd, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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