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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... true fountain - head of our national poetry , antiquaries , in a question which is interest- ing to themselves alone , are widely divided . Some would trace it to a Celtic origin - to the bards of Armorica or Brittany ; others to a ...
... true fountain - head of our national poetry , antiquaries , in a question which is interest- ing to themselves alone , are widely divided . Some would trace it to a Celtic origin - to the bards of Armorica or Brittany ; others to a ...
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... 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 , than any thing in the early annals of ...
... 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 , than any thing in the early annals of ...
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... true pathos than all the love - stories which were composed for two cen- turies after its appearance . Troilus is supposed to have first seen Creseide in a temple ; and in the solitude of his chamber , in ruminating on her charms , he ...
... true pathos than all the love - stories which were composed for two cen- turies after its appearance . Troilus is supposed to have first seen Creseide in a temple ; and in the solitude of his chamber , in ruminating on her charms , he ...
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... true reading : - Merry swithe it is in halle , When the berdes waveth alle . Among the poets of the Second Edward's reign was Robert Barton , a Carmelite friar , who accom- panied the king into Scotland , to sing his antici- pated ...
... true reading : - Merry swithe it is in halle , When the berdes waveth alle . Among the poets of the Second Edward's reign was Robert Barton , a Carmelite friar , who accom- panied the king into Scotland , to sing his antici- pated ...
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... true to it as the echo to the voice . While the language of the ordinary poets and rhymists of the most polished times does but coldly and tamely , though smoothly , repeat the inward sentiment , it is by their skill romantically echoed ...
... true to it as the echo to the voice . While the language of the ordinary poets and rhymists of the most polished times does but coldly and tamely , though smoothly , repeat the inward sentiment , it is by their skill romantically echoed ...
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