Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... poet , Hight this clerk , whose rhetoric sweet Enlumined all Italy of poetry . 6 The tale thus learned is the pathetic story of Patient Grisilde , which , in fact , was written by Boccaccio , and only translated into Latin by Petrarch ...
... poet , Hight this clerk , whose rhetoric sweet Enlumined all Italy of poetry . 6 The tale thus learned is the pathetic story of Patient Grisilde , which , in fact , was written by Boccaccio , and only translated into Latin by Petrarch ...
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... poet has dwelt more fondly on the charms of a spring or summer morn- ing ; and the month of May seems to have been ... poetry . to have copied this design , as well as part of the Florentine's freedom and licentiousness of detail ; but ...
... poet has dwelt more fondly on the charms of a spring or summer morn- ing ; and the month of May seems to have been ... poetry . to have copied this design , as well as part of the Florentine's freedom and licentiousness of detail ; but ...
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... poetry since that time has been written , and which , as Mr Southey has remarked , may be judged from that circum- stance to be best adapted to the character of our speech . The accentuation , by a license since aban- doned , is ...
... poetry since that time has been written , and which , as Mr Southey has remarked , may be judged from that circum- stance to be best adapted to the character of our speech . The accentuation , by a license since aban- doned , is ...
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... poetry to its origin , we know that the first prose dates from the sixth century before the Christian era , when it was as- sumed , in Greece , as the form of certain narratives differing from poetry in scarcely any other respect . In ...
... poetry to its origin , we know that the first prose dates from the sixth century before the Christian era , when it was as- sumed , in Greece , as the form of certain narratives differing from poetry in scarcely any other respect . In ...
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... POETS . HILE such minds as Chaucer's take shape , in some meas- ure , from the state of learn- ing and civili- sation ... poetry superior to ings contain only a few good passages , he is. 36 FROM 1400 TO 1.58 . CYCLOPEDIA OF KING JAMES I ...
... POETS . HILE such minds as Chaucer's take shape , in some meas- ure , from the state of learn- ing and civili- sation ... poetry superior to ings contain only a few good passages , he is. 36 FROM 1400 TO 1.58 . CYCLOPEDIA OF KING JAMES I ...
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