Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets: Together with Some Few of Later Date, Volume 1J. Nichol, 1858 - Ballads, English |
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... north countrè . " Then there was the build of the ballad - so simple , yet striking , full even in its fragmentariness , bringing out all main events and master - strokes with complete success , often breaking off xii LIFE OF THOMAS PERCY .
... north countrè . " Then there was the build of the ballad - so simple , yet striking , full even in its fragmentariness , bringing out all main events and master - strokes with complete success , often breaking off xii LIFE OF THOMAS PERCY .
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... North , with its gloomy forests , gloomier snows , and its mid- night winter sky , heavy - laden with stars - were stern in their subjects and in their mode of song : they interwove such phi- losophy , morality , and theology as they ...
... North , with its gloomy forests , gloomier snows , and its mid- night winter sky , heavy - laden with stars - were stern in their subjects and in their mode of song : they interwove such phi- losophy , morality , and theology as they ...
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... fallen in France . " There the genius of the North and the splendid melody of Italy met and married , and produced between them the perfect form of medieval minstrelsy . Wherever the Church extended , a class of LIFE OF THOMAS PERCY . xix.
... fallen in France . " There the genius of the North and the splendid melody of Italy met and married , and produced between them the perfect form of medieval minstrelsy . Wherever the Church extended , a class of LIFE OF THOMAS PERCY . xix.
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... North ; and indeed by almost all the first inha- 1 The professors of minstrelsy were , properly speaking , of two classes - the Trouveurs or Rymours , who were original composers ; and the Menestrels or Minstrels , who sang to a musical ...
... North ; and indeed by almost all the first inha- 1 The professors of minstrelsy were , properly speaking , of two classes - the Trouveurs or Rymours , who were original composers ; and the Menestrels or Minstrels , who sang to a musical ...
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... North ; and that there never was wanting a succession of them to hand down the art , though some particular conjunctures may have rendered it more respectable at one time than another ? And this was evidently the case . For though much ...
... North ; and that there never was wanting a succession of them to hand down the art , though some particular conjunctures may have rendered it more respectable at one time than another ? And this was evidently the case . For though much ...
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