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,Oliver & Boyd, 1828 - 560 páginas |
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... leaves on the side of the hills driven by hurri- canes . He is a warrior , like the surge on the beach that covers the wild salmons . Her eye was piercing like that of the hawk ; her face shone like the pearly dew on Evyri . Llewelyn is ...
... leaves on the side of the hills driven by hurri- canes . He is a warrior , like the surge on the beach that covers the wild salmons . Her eye was piercing like that of the hawk ; her face shone like the pearly dew on Evyri . Llewelyn is ...
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... Leaf " will sur- vive while the language endures as the fairy dream of a youthful poet . But Chaucer was eminently what the old romances call " a man of middle earth ; " and nature soon reclaimed his genius from the regions of pure ...
... Leaf " will sur- vive while the language endures as the fairy dream of a youthful poet . But Chaucer was eminently what the old romances call " a man of middle earth ; " and nature soon reclaimed his genius from the regions of pure ...
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... Melland their notes with seemly soun , For softness of the sweet seasoun ; And leaves of the branches spreeds , And bloomis bright beside them breeds , And fieldis strewed are with flowers , Well savouring of ENGLISH POETRY . 21.
... Melland their notes with seemly soun , For softness of the sweet seasoun ; And leaves of the branches spreeds , And bloomis bright beside them breeds , And fieldis strewed are with flowers , Well savouring of ENGLISH POETRY . 21.
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... sal- vation without the creed for money . He leaves them with indignation , and finds an honest poor ploughman in the field , and tells him how he had been disappointed by the four orders . " Had this 26 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... sal- vation without the creed for money . He leaves them with indignation , and finds an honest poor ploughman in the field , and tells him how he had been disappointed by the four orders . " Had this 26 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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... 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 genius , now enriched 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 genius , now enriched and ...
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