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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... death , which calamity appears to have been the frequent fate of poets . His tomb , deco- rated with his volumes and his effigy , the head garlanded with roses , is still to be seen in the church of St Mary Overey in Southwark , to the ...
... death , which calamity appears to have been the frequent fate of poets . His tomb , deco- rated with his volumes and his effigy , the head garlanded with roses , is still to be seen in the church of St Mary Overey in Southwark , to the ...
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... death in her distrèsse , To her brother full piteouslie she said , " Cause of my sorrowe , roote of my heavinesse , That whilom were the sourse of my gladnesse , When both our joyes by wille were so disposed , Under one key our hearts ...
... death in her distrèsse , To her brother full piteouslie she said , " Cause of my sorrowe , roote of my heavinesse , That whilom were the sourse of my gladnesse , When both our joyes by wille were so disposed , Under one key our hearts ...
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... death's violence , Tender of limbes , God wote , full guiltèlesse The goodly faire , that lieth here speechless . A mouth he has , but wordis hath he none ; Cannot complaine alas ! for none outrage : Nor grutcheth not , but lies here ...
... death's violence , Tender of limbes , God wote , full guiltèlesse The goodly faire , that lieth here speechless . A mouth he has , but wordis hath he none ; Cannot complaine alas ! for none outrage : Nor grutcheth not , but lies here ...
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... death is not known , It is placed about the year 1460 . From the decease of Lydgate , till near the splen- did period of the reign of Elizabeth , there is a dreary void in English poetry , illumined only by those distant northern lights ...
... death is not known , It is placed about the year 1460 . From the decease of Lydgate , till near the splen- did period of the reign of Elizabeth , there is a dreary void in English poetry , illumined only by those distant northern lights ...
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... death of Chaucer . His history and adventures are well known . He was made prisoner at sea , when a boy of ten years old , on his way to France to be educated at the court of Charles VI . , and re- mained the captive of Henry IV . for ...
... death of Chaucer . His history and adventures are well known . He was made prisoner at sea , when a boy of ten years old , on his way to France to be educated at the court of Charles VI . , and re- mained the captive of Henry IV . for ...
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