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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Page 1
Even on the true fountain - head of our national poetry , antiquaries , in a
question which is interesting to themselves alone , are widely divided . Some
would trace it to a Celtic origin - to the bards of Armorica or Brittany ; others to a
Gothic ...
Even on the true fountain - head of our national poetry , antiquaries , in a
question which is interesting to themselves alone , are widely divided . Some
would trace it to a Celtic origin - to the bards of Armorica or Brittany ; others to a
Gothic ...
Page 2
The Runic Odes , translated with so much of the true Bardic fire by Gray , and the
fine specimens of poetry which remain of the Welsh bards , would lead us to form
a higher estimate of the poetry of the kindred and neighbouring race of England ...
The Runic Odes , translated with so much of the true Bardic fire by Gray , and the
fine specimens of poetry which remain of the Welsh bards , would lead us to form
a higher estimate of the poetry of the kindred and neighbouring race of England ...
Page 9
It contains more true pathos than all the love - stories which were composed for
two centuries after its appearance . Troilus is supposed to have first seen
Creseide in a temple ; and in the solitude of his chamber , in ruminating on her ...
It contains more true pathos than all the love - stories which were composed for
two centuries after its appearance . Troilus is supposed to have first seen
Creseide in a temple ; and in the solitude of his chamber , in ruminating on her ...
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In this same old romance , in which the manners of chivalry are constantly
ingrafted on classical his . tory , is found the well - known couplet in its true
reading :Merry swithe it is in halle , When the berdes waveth alle . Among the
poets of the ...
In this same old romance , in which the manners of chivalry are constantly
ingrafted on classical his . tory , is found the well - known couplet in its true
reading :Merry swithe it is in halle , When the berdes waveth alle . Among the
poets of the ...
Page 86
... voices , instruments , winds , waters , all agree . The music to which these great
poets have chosen to set their thoughts and feelings , their magic numbers , and
their “ winged words , ” are as wonderful as their genius , and as true to it as the ...
... voices , instruments , winds , waters , all agree . The music to which these great
poets have chosen to set their thoughts and feelings , their magic numbers , and
their “ winged words , ” are as wonderful as their genius , and as true to it as the ...
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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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