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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... England , might have renovated the national poetry , the long distractions of the country which follow- ed , and the change of the language from what is called the British , or original Saxon , to the Danish Saxon introduced by the ...
... England , might have renovated the national poetry , the long distractions of the country which follow- ed , and the change of the language from what is called the British , or original Saxon , to the Danish Saxon introduced by the ...
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... England could boast of no native poetry till , in the lapse of years , the lan- guage of the Normans and the Saxons , having passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman - Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of ...
... England could boast of no native poetry till , in the lapse of years , the lan- guage of the Normans and the Saxons , having passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman - Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of ...
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... England till the reign of Elizabeth . " It contains more true pathos than all the love - stories which were composed for two cen- turies after its appearance . Troilus is supposed to have first seen Creseide in a temple ; and in the ...
... England till the reign of Elizabeth . " It contains more true pathos than all the love - stories which were composed for two cen- turies after its appearance . Troilus is supposed to have first seen Creseide in a temple ; and in the ...
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... England , we may thus assign nearly the same date . The native English poetry , if it deserve the name , before the age of Chaucer , is comprehended by versified homilies and moral rhapsodies , some- thing like the rudiments of the ...
... England , we may thus assign nearly the same date . The native English poetry , if it deserve the name , before the age of Chaucer , is comprehended by versified homilies and moral rhapsodies , some- thing like the rudiments of the ...
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... England , curious , and even valuable to the antiquarian , but intolerably tedious to every less patient reader . This was about the year 1280 ; and twenty - three years before a person of more talent and celebrity , Robert de Brunne ...
... England , curious , and even valuable to the antiquarian , but intolerably tedious to every less patient reader . This was about the year 1280 ; and twenty - three years before a person of more talent and celebrity , Robert de Brunne ...
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