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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... once on his native land , like the morning - star after a long night of obscu- rity ; and on his death the splendour of this illus- trious dawn suffered an eclipse of nearly two cen- turies , when the Reformation ushered in the most ...
... once on his native land , like the morning - star after a long night of obscu- rity ; and on his death the splendour of this illus- trious dawn suffered an eclipse of nearly two cen- turies , when the Reformation ushered in the most ...
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... once ; but the ground was prepared , and the seed was sown , though it required generations to ripen it and to gather it in . Such , at the birth of Chaucer , were the best of the contemporary models which existed either for the ...
... once ; but the ground was prepared , and the seed was sown , though it required generations to ripen it and to gather it in . Such , at the birth of Chaucer , were the best of the contemporary models which existed either for the ...
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... once takes her kind resolution : - This was the mirrie tyme of May , Quhen this fair ladie , freshe and gay , Start up to take the hailsum ( c ) air , With pantouns ( d ) on hir feit ane pair , Airlie into ane cleir morning , Befoir ...
... once takes her kind resolution : - This was the mirrie tyme of May , Quhen this fair ladie , freshe and gay , Start up to take the hailsum ( c ) air , With pantouns ( d ) on hir feit ane pair , Airlie into ane cleir morning , Befoir ...
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... once say , that none was born ; for there was nothing in the condi- tion of society in that interval that could have checked , much less have extinguished , the genius of Spenser or of Shakspeare . They were of that robust constitution ...
... once say , that none was born ; for there was nothing in the condi- tion of society in that interval that could have checked , much less have extinguished , the genius of Spenser or of Shakspeare . They were of that robust constitution ...
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... of sounds which sink at once into the soul and the sense . Thus , the triumph of art in the first poets if this be art - equals their powers of creative genius . They acknowledged no ordinary rule 86 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... of sounds which sink at once into the soul and the sense . Thus , the triumph of art in the first poets if this be art - equals their powers of creative genius . They acknowledged no ordinary rule 86 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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