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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... Field of the Cloth of Gold . " But this rests on little better authority than that he assisted in gaining the vic- tory at the fight of Flodden - field , which was stricken be- fore he was born . The romantic traditionary history of ...
... Field of the Cloth of Gold . " But this rests on little better authority than that he assisted in gaining the vic- tory at the fight of Flodden - field , which was stricken be- fore he was born . The romantic traditionary history of ...
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... fields , whereas I walk'd about . And sorrowing I to see the Summer flowers , The lively green , the lusty leas forlorn ; The sturdy trees so shatter'd with the showers , ( a ) Sweet . F The fields so fade that flourished so beforne ...
... fields , whereas I walk'd about . And sorrowing I to see the Summer flowers , The lively green , the lusty leas forlorn ; The sturdy trees so shatter'd with the showers , ( a ) Sweet . F The fields so fade that flourished so beforne ...
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... fields so fade that flourished so beforne ; It taught me well all earthly things be borne To die the death , for nought long time may last ; The Summer's beauty yields to Winter's blast . Then looking upward to the Heaven's leams , With ...
... fields so fade that flourished so beforne ; It taught me well all earthly things be borne To die the death , for nought long time may last ; The Summer's beauty yields to Winter's blast . Then looking upward to the Heaven's leams , With ...
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... field , before their life take flight ; Since he which latest did the game begin , Doth longest hope to linger still therein . # THE LULLABY OF A LOVER . SING lullaby , as women do , Wherewith they bring their babes to rest ; And ...
... field , before their life take flight ; Since he which latest did the game begin , Doth longest hope to linger still therein . # THE LULLABY OF A LOVER . SING lullaby , as women do , Wherewith they bring their babes to rest ; And ...
Page 127
... field , ever been rivalled . " In Spenser , " says that modern critic who beyond all others , has caught the fire , and formed himself on the catholic taste of our elder poets , we wander in another world among ideal beings . The poet ...
... field , ever been rivalled . " In Spenser , " says that modern critic who beyond all others , has caught the fire , and formed himself on the catholic taste of our elder poets , we wander in another world among ideal beings . The poet ...
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