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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... passed over are Milton , Cowper , Young , Blair , Grahame , Byron , & c . And other lives have been given here , which did not fall so directly within the scope of the pre- ceding work , as those of Surrey , Shakspeare , Chat- terton ...
... passed over are Milton , Cowper , Young , Blair , Grahame , Byron , & c . And other lives have been given here , which did not fall so directly within the scope of the pre- ceding work , as those of Surrey , Shakspeare , Chat- terton ...
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... passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman - Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of strangely - mixed origin , which has ga- thered beauty and strength in repeated crosses of the original Saxon breed , till ...
... passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman - Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of strangely - mixed origin , which has ga- thered beauty and strength in repeated crosses of the original Saxon breed , till ...
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... passed hem of Ipres , and of Gaunt . In all the parish wif ne was ther non , That to the offring before hire shulde gon , And if ther did , certain so wroth was she , That she was out of allè charitee . Hire coverchiefs weren ful fine ...
... passed hem of Ipres , and of Gaunt . In all the parish wif ne was ther non , That to the offring before hire shulde gon , And if ther did , certain so wroth was she , That she was out of allè charitee . Hire coverchiefs weren ful fine ...
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... Passing over several obscure names , half - forgot- ten even by antiquaries , the next English poet who continues the golden chain which links Chaucer to modern times , was John Lydgate , who is supposed to have been born about 1375. He ...
... Passing over several obscure names , half - forgot- ten even by antiquaries , the next English poet who continues the golden chain which links Chaucer to modern times , was John Lydgate , who is supposed to have been born about 1375. He ...
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... passed without a royal progress , a marriage , the murder of one wife , and the coronation of another . Nor was his revengeful and brutal selfishness of that indo- lent and sordid kind which , if not quite so detest- able in the ...
... passed without a royal progress , a marriage , the murder of one wife , and the coronation of another . Nor was his revengeful and brutal selfishness of that indo- lent and sordid kind which , if not quite so detest- able in the ...
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