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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... language with trans- lations from the Latin , which are still preserved , he made no collection of Saxon poetry . The Runic Odes , translated with so much of the true Bardic fire by Gray , and the fine specimens of poetry which remain ...
... language with trans- lations from the Latin , which are still preserved , he made no collection of Saxon poetry . The Runic Odes , translated with so much of the true Bardic fire by Gray , and the fine specimens of poetry which remain ...
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... language from what is called the British , or original Saxon , to the Danish Saxon introduced by the invaders , must have mar- red its progress . Literature of all kinds was thus at a very low ebb in England , when , at the period of ...
... language from what is called the British , or original Saxon , to the Danish Saxon introduced by the invaders , must have mar- red its progress . Literature of all kinds was thus at a very low ebb in England , when , at the period of ...
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... language , their manners , and their arts . Though the Norman minstrels attached to the court of the Conqueror and his successors enriched the literature of the period with some original pro- ductions , and many romances and lays from ...
... language , their manners , and their arts . Though the Norman minstrels attached to the court of the Conqueror and his successors enriched the literature of the period with some original pro- ductions , and many romances and lays from ...
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... language endures as the fairy dream of a youthful poet . But Chaucer was eminently what the old romances call " a man of middle earth ; " and nature soon reclaimed his genius from the regions of pure fancy to a field better worthy of ...
... language endures as the fairy dream of a youthful poet . But Chaucer was eminently what the old romances call " a man of middle earth ; " and nature soon reclaimed his genius from the regions of pure fancy to a field better worthy of ...
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... language , superseding both the Norman and the Danish - Saxon , became the common dialect of all ranks both in writing and discourse . To English poetry , the name Eng- lishman , and the modern language of England , we may thus assign ...
... language , superseding both the Norman and the Danish - Saxon , became the common dialect of all ranks both in writing and discourse . To English poetry , the name Eng- lishman , and the modern language of England , we may thus assign ...
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