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Page iii
This little volume , like the SPECIMENS OF SACRED AND SERIOUS POETRY ,
has been se . lected on views somewhat different from those which have guided
the editors of the various agreeable compilations known under the name of ...
This little volume , like the SPECIMENS OF SACRED AND SERIOUS POETRY ,
has been se . lected on views somewhat different from those which have guided
the editors of the various agreeable compilations known under the name of ...
Page v
... and other “ Lyric singers of our high - souled land ”since their 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 ...
... and other “ Lyric singers of our high - souled land ”since their 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 ...
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It is , however , labour lost to investigate the ori . gin of what has no longer an
existence ; for much more is now known of the poetry of every contemporary race
than of that of our Saxon ancestors . The most brilliant period of Anglo - Saxon ...
It is , however , labour lost to investigate the ori . gin of what has no longer an
existence ; for much more is now known of the poetry of every contemporary race
than of that of our Saxon ancestors . The most brilliant period of Anglo - Saxon ...
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Many battle - songs , love - verses , and drinking - songs of the Welsh bards are
preserved ; and as these are little known , save to antiquarians and scholars , a
specimen of them may be acceptable as a literary curi . osity . SONG BY ...
Many battle - songs , love - verses , and drinking - songs of the Welsh bards are
preserved ; and as these are little known , save to antiquarians and scholars , a
specimen of them may be acceptable as a literary curi . osity . SONG BY ...
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lifetime of Chaucer , who had now lived sixtythree years , and been 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 ...
lifetime of Chaucer , who had now lived sixtythree years , and been 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 ...
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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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