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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... writings . Into what raptures would thousands of fashionable readers be thrown , could such lyrics as those here selected from Herrick , Carew , and Lovelace , be presented to them for the first time under the at- tractive name of Moore ...
... writings . Into what raptures would thousands of fashionable readers be thrown , could such lyrics as those here selected from Herrick , Carew , and Lovelace , be presented to them for the first time under the at- tractive name of Moore ...
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... writings , being sacred and serious , had already been noticed at length . But , between the two volumes , the BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES , as well as SPECIMENS of all the Poets , are , it is hoped , tolerably full and complete , though each ...
... writings , being sacred and serious , had already been noticed at length . But , between the two volumes , the BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES , as well as SPECIMENS of all the Poets , are , it is hoped , tolerably full and complete , though each ...
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... writing and discourse . To English poetry , the name Eng- lishman , and the modern language of England , we may thus assign nearly the same date . The native English poetry , if it deserve the name , before the age of Chaucer , is ...
... writing and discourse . To English poetry , the name Eng- lishman , and the modern language of England , we may thus assign nearly the same date . The native English poetry , if it deserve the name , before the age of Chaucer , is ...
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... writing . And every statute coude he plaine by rote . He rode but homely in a medlee ( h ) cote . ( i ) ( a ) Get . ( b ) ... writings . ( hi ) Coat of mixed stuff . decisions . ( e ) Suspicion . A Frankelein ( a ) was in this compagnie ...
... writing . And every statute coude he plaine by rote . He rode but homely in a medlee ( h ) cote . ( i ) ( a ) Get . ( b ) ... writings . ( hi ) Coat of mixed stuff . decisions . ( e ) Suspicion . A Frankelein ( a ) was in this compagnie ...
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... till they cloy ; his language has a kind of ill - assorted splendour , which , however , is often pleasing ; his images and epithets are occa- sionally original and happy ; and amidst his ornate writing 76 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... till they cloy ; his language has a kind of ill - assorted splendour , which , however , is often pleasing ; his images and epithets are occa- sionally original and happy ; and amidst his ornate writing 76 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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