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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... and cultivated liberal as well as warlike arts , they jealously depressed every
indication of national spirit , every thing which could make the Saxons remember
they had ever been a people , or other than the bondsmen of their Norman lords .
... and cultivated liberal as well as warlike arts , they jealously depressed every
indication of national spirit , every thing which could make the Saxons remember
they had ever been a people , or other than the bondsmen of their Norman lords .
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... his spirit mette ( 6 ) That he her saw , and temple , and all the wise Right of her
loke , and ' gan it new avise . The extreme delicacy and beauty of Creseide ( a )
Delay ; hinderance . ( 6 ) Dreamed . confessing her love amidst a scene of felicity
...
... his spirit mette ( 6 ) That he her saw , and temple , and all the wise Right of her
loke , and ' gan it new avise . The extreme delicacy and beauty of Creseide ( a )
Delay ; hinderance . ( 6 ) Dreamed . confessing her love amidst a scene of felicity
...
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... farwel , for I go : And , Atropos , make ready thou my bere : And thou Creseidè ,
O sweet hertè dere , ( a ) Stops , ceases . ( c ) Ceased . ( 6 ) Assurance . ( d )
Together . Receivè now my spirit , would he say , With 10 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... farwel , for I go : And , Atropos , make ready thou my bere : And thou Creseidè ,
O sweet hertè dere , ( a ) Stops , ceases . ( c ) Ceased . ( 6 ) Assurance . ( d )
Together . Receivè now my spirit , would he say , With 10 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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Receivè now my spirit , would he say , With sword at herte , all redy for to dey .
But as God would , of swough ( a ) she abraide , ( 6 ) And gan to sighe , and
Troilus she cride : And he answerid , Lady mine Creseide , Livin ye yet ? And let
his ...
Receivè now my spirit , would he say , With sword at herte , all redy for to dey .
But as God would , of swough ( a ) she abraide , ( 6 ) And gan to sighe , and
Troilus she cride : And he answerid , Lady mine Creseide , Livin ye yet ? And let
his ...
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... but nothing had been invented to supply its place ; the language was still
unsettled and rugged , the phraseology quaint and scanty ; the diction , the
numbers , and the music of poetry , were still to be invented . Its spirit , if it had
ever existed ...
... but nothing had been invented to supply its place ; the language was still
unsettled and rugged , the phraseology quaint and scanty ; the diction , the
numbers , and the music of poetry , were still to be invented . Its spirit , if it had
ever existed ...
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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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