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Among the poets thus passed over are Milton , Cowper , Young , Blair , Grahame
, Byron , & c . And other lives have been given here , which did not fall so directly
within the scope of the preceding work , as those of Surrey , Shakspeare ...
Among the poets thus passed over are Milton , Cowper , Young , Blair , Grahame
, Byron , & c . And other lives have been given here , which did not fall so directly
within the scope of the preceding work , as those of Surrey , Shakspeare ...
Page 6
... the Saxons , having passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman
- Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of strangely - mixed origin ,
which has gathered beauty and strength in repeated crosses of the original
Saxon ...
... the Saxons , having passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman
- Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of strangely - mixed origin ,
which has gathered beauty and strength in repeated crosses of the original
Saxon ...
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( a ) Of cloth making she hadde swiche an haunt , She passed hem of Ipres , and
of Gaunt . In all the parish wif ne was ther non , That to the offring before hire
shulde gon , And if ther did , certain so wroth was she , That she was out of allé ...
( a ) Of cloth making she hadde swiche an haunt , She passed hem of Ipres , and
of Gaunt . In all the parish wif ne was ther non , That to the offring before hire
shulde gon , And if ther did , certain so wroth was she , That she was out of allé ...
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Passing over several obscure names , half - forgotten even by antiquaries , the
next English poet who continues the golden chain which links Chaucer to
modern times , was John Lydgate , who is supposed to have been born about
1375 .
Passing over several obscure names , half - forgotten even by antiquaries , the
next English poet who continues the golden chain which links Chaucer to
modern times , was John Lydgate , who is supposed to have been born about
1375 .
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No year passed without a royal progress , a marriage , the murder of one wife ,
and the coronation of another . Nor was his revengeful and brutal selfishness of
that indolent and sordid kind which , if not quite so detestable in the individual , is
...
No year passed without a royal progress , a marriage , the murder of one wife ,
and the coronation of another . Nor was his revengeful and brutal selfishness of
that indolent and sordid kind which , if not quite so detestable in the individual , is
...
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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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