Specimens of the Early English Poets,: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language;Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row., 1811 - English poetry |
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... VOLUMES . BY GEORGE ELLIS , ESQ . THE FOURTH EDITION CORRECTED . VOL . III . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , ORME , AND BROWN , PATERNOSTER - row . 1811 . EDINBURGH : Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. 1L1264 CONTENTS ...
... VOLUMES . BY GEORGE ELLIS , ESQ . THE FOURTH EDITION CORRECTED . VOL . III . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , ORME , AND BROWN , PATERNOSTER - row . 1811 . EDINBURGH : Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. 1L1264 CONTENTS ...
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... volumes of patchwork and shreds of quotation which form the prose compositions of this age . It is remarkable , that the series of Scotish poets terminates abruptly in this reign , and that no name of eminence occurs between those of ...
... volumes of patchwork and shreds of quotation which form the prose compositions of this age . It is remarkable , that the series of Scotish poets terminates abruptly in this reign , and that no name of eminence occurs between those of ...
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... volume . OH ! who hath tasted of thy clemency In greater measure , or more oft than I ? My grateful verse thy goodness shall display . O thou who went'st along in all my way To where the Morning with perfumed wings From the high ...
... volume . OH ! who hath tasted of thy clemency In greater measure , or more oft than I ? My grateful verse thy goodness shall display . O thou who went'st along in all my way To where the Morning with perfumed wings From the high ...
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... volume folio , under the title of " Recreations with the Muses . " For further particulars of our author , who deserves consi- derable praise as a masculine and vigorous writer , abound- ing with moral and political instruction , see ...
... volume folio , under the title of " Recreations with the Muses . " For further particulars of our author , who deserves consi- derable praise as a masculine and vigorous writer , abound- ing with moral and political instruction , see ...
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... volumes would be written there . Might silence shew my mind , Sighs tell how I were pin'd , Or looks my woes relate ; Then any pregnant wit , That well remarked it , Would soon discern my state . Oft , those that do deserve disdain For ...
... volumes would be written there . Might silence shew my mind , Sighs tell how I were pin'd , Or looks my woes relate ; Then any pregnant wit , That well remarked it , Would soon discern my state . Oft , those that do deserve disdain For ...
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