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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... young , with whom poetry is a passion , but whose tastes are still either false or unripe . Instead of pampering the insatiable appetite for novelty , and preferring fleeting fashion to permanent excellence , it is the duty of the ...
... young , with whom poetry is a passion , but whose tastes are still either false or unripe . Instead of pampering the insatiable appetite for novelty , and preferring fleeting fashion to permanent excellence , it is the duty of the ...
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... Young , Blair , Grahame , Byron , & c . And other lives have been given here , which did not fall so directly within the scope of the pre- ceding work , as those of Surrey , Shakspeare , Chat- terton , Burns , & c . & c . On the same ...
... Young , Blair , Grahame , Byron , & c . And other lives have been given here , which did not fall so directly within the scope of the pre- ceding work , as those of Surrey , Shakspeare , Chat- terton , Burns , & c . & c . On the same ...
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... . Translation from Horace ............................. 267 SIR CHARLES SEDLEY To a Devout Young Lady ....... Song in Bellamira ......... Love ... 269 ib . 270 ib . JONATHAN SWIFT ...... Verses on his own Death . The X CONTENTS .
... . Translation from Horace ............................. 267 SIR CHARLES SEDLEY To a Devout Young Lady ....... Song in Bellamira ......... Love ... 269 ib . 270 ib . JONATHAN SWIFT ...... Verses on his own Death . The X CONTENTS .
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... young poet . The art of versification was in the rudest state ; the alliterative monotonous clink of the Saxon muse had been happily nearly silenced , but nothing had been invented to supply its place ; the language was still unsettled ...
... young poet . The art of versification was in the rudest state ; the alliterative monotonous clink of the Saxon muse had been happily nearly silenced , but nothing had been invented to supply its place ; the language was still unsettled ...
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... Young Beauty in the FLOWER AND LEAF , sitting in her secluded arbour in the springy freshness of the early summer morning . The imagination of Chaucer still retained its pristine vigour and buoyancy , when , in the matu- rity of his ...
... Young Beauty in the FLOWER AND LEAF , sitting in her secluded arbour in the springy freshness of the early summer morning . The imagination of Chaucer still retained its pristine vigour and buoyancy , when , in the matu- rity of his ...
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