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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208 U VELV VA N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. CUI 205 song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10 . 213 ib . The Nightly Charm . . . . . . . . . . The Mad Maid ' s Song .
208 U VELV VA N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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10 . 213 ib . The Nightly Charm . . . . . . . . . . The Mad Maid ' s Song .
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From the Irish Melodies From the Irish Melodies . . . . . . . . . The Arab Maid . . . . . . .
. . . 504 Mutability of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Miss BAILLIE . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 The Kitten .
From the Irish Melodies From the Irish Melodies . . . . . . . . . The Arab Maid . . . . . . .
. . . 504 Mutability of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Miss BAILLIE . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 The Kitten .
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The only valuable poetical relique which we possess between the death of
Chaucer and the time of Surrey is the dramatic ballad of the NutBROWN Maid . Its
date is the end of the fif . teenth , or the beginning of the sixteenth century , its
author ...
The only valuable poetical relique which we possess between the death of
Chaucer and the time of Surrey is the dramatic ballad of the NutBROWN Maid . Its
date is the end of the fif . teenth , or the beginning of the sixteenth century , its
author ...
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and disguising the Nut - Brown Maid in this modish fashion , Prior has drawn the
moral fore - hammer of Johnson upon her devoted head ; and it is not a little
amusing to find the “ great moralist , ” who seems entirely unacquainted with the
real ...
and disguising the Nut - Brown Maid in this modish fashion , Prior has drawn the
moral fore - hammer of Johnson upon her devoted head ; and it is not a little
amusing to find the “ great moralist , ” who seems entirely unacquainted with the
real ...
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... the Nut - Brown Maid , who again replies , SHE . I shall as nowe do more for
you Than longeth to womanhede ; To shote my here , a bowe to bere , To shote
in tyme of nede , O my swete mother , before all other For you ENGLISH POETRY
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... the Nut - Brown Maid , who again replies , SHE . I shall as nowe do more for
you Than longeth to womanhede ; To shote my here , a bowe to bere , To shote
in tyme of nede , O my swete mother , before all other For you ENGLISH POETRY
.
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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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