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With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical
and Critical Notices, John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) bury Tales . The plan of this
work is as simple and natural as it is happy . A promiscuous company of twenty ...
With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical
and Critical Notices, John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) bury Tales . The plan of this
work is as simple and natural as it is happy . A promiscuous company of twenty ...
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It was happy and lively , delighting more in sunshine than gloom , in beauty
rather than wildness or grandeur — often picturesque , seldom sublime . But
though great in every walk , in the painting of living manners he has no preceding
nor ...
It was happy and lively , delighting more in sunshine than gloom , in beauty
rather than wildness or grandeur — often picturesque , seldom sublime . But
though great in every walk , in the painting of living manners he has no preceding
nor ...
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... a period which he sedulously employed in the cul . tivation of his naturally
happy genius , and in acquiring the accomplishments suited to his age and rank .
Besides that skill in polite letters , of which his poetry leaves unquestionable
proof ...
... a period which he sedulously employed in the cul . tivation of his naturally
happy genius , and in acquiring the accomplishments suited to his age and rank .
Besides that skill in polite letters , of which his poetry leaves unquestionable
proof ...
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... in a garden with her ladies at a very early hour :The longe dayes and the
nightis eke I would bewail my fortune in this wise ; For which , against distress
comfort to seek , My custom was on mornis for to rise Early as day : 0 happy
exercise !
... in a garden with her ladies at a very early hour :The longe dayes and the
nightis eke I would bewail my fortune in this wise ; For which , against distress
comfort to seek , My custom was on mornis for to rise Early as day : 0 happy
exercise !
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His descriptions are full to satiety - rich till they cloy ; his language has a kind of ill
- assorted splendour , which , however , is often pleasing ; his images and
epithets are occasionally original and happy ; and amidst his ornate writing he 76
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His descriptions are full to satiety - rich till they cloy ; his language has a kind of ill
- assorted splendour , which , however , is often pleasing ; his images and
epithets are occasionally original and happy ; and amidst his ornate writing he 76
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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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