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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... seen in the church of St Mary Overey in Southwark , to the erection of which edifice he had liberally contri- buted . Gower's will is still extant , from which it appears that he was too rich a man to be a great poet . Gower's verses ...
... seen in the church of St Mary Overey in Southwark , to the erection of which edifice he had liberally contri- buted . Gower's will is still extant , from which it appears that he was too rich a man to be a great poet . Gower's verses ...
Page 100
... seen . Rude satirists , and humorous exposers of follies and vices , had frequently arisen , but Skelton is the great prototype of those who carry personal scurrility and an ungenerous and vindic- tive hostility into their writings ...
... seen . Rude satirists , and humorous exposers of follies and vices , had frequently arisen , but Skelton is the great prototype of those who carry personal scurrility and an ungenerous and vindic- tive hostility into their writings ...
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... seen Geraldine , as he has named her ; but such poetical attachments were , in chivalrous times , no im- peachment either on the fame of the knight or the purity of the lady . Bayard , the chevalier sans peur et sans re- proche , was ...
... seen Geraldine , as he has named her ; but such poetical attachments were , in chivalrous times , no im- peachment either on the fame of the knight or the purity of the lady . Bayard , the chevalier sans peur et sans re- proche , was ...
Page 121
... seen , Was all despoiled of her beauty's hue ; And soote ( a ) fresh flow'rs , wherewith the Sum- mer's Queen Had clad the earth , now Boreas blasts down blew ; And small fowls flocking , in their song did rue The Winter's wrath ...
... seen , Was all despoiled of her beauty's hue ; And soote ( a ) fresh flow'rs , wherewith the Sum- mer's Queen Had clad the earth , now Boreas blasts down blew ; And small fowls flocking , in their song did rue The Winter's wrath ...
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... seen and admired by Henry IV . , then only King of Navarre . " He used him , " says Sydney's friend and bio- grapher , Sir Fulke Greville , " like an equal in nature , and fit for friendship with a king . " The massacre of the ...
... seen and admired by Henry IV . , then only King of Navarre . " He used him , " says Sydney's friend and bio- grapher , Sir Fulke Greville , " like an equal in nature , and fit for friendship with a king . " The massacre of the ...
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