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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... verses , and drinking - songs of the Welsh bards are preserved ; and as these are little known , save to antiquarians and scholars , a specimen of them may be acceptable as a literary curi- osity . SONG BY TALIESSEN , A WELSH BARD OF ...
... verses , and drinking - songs of the Welsh bards are preserved ; and as these are little known , save to antiquarians and scholars , a specimen of them may be acceptable as a literary curi- osity . SONG BY TALIESSEN , A WELSH BARD OF ...
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... verse in his native language , avow- edly for the advantage of his untaught country- men . His first performance was a translation from a work written in French by an English bishop , and entitled the MANUAL OF SINS . The trans- lator ...
... verse in his native language , avow- edly for the advantage of his untaught country- men . His first performance was a translation from a work written in French by an English bishop , and entitled the MANUAL OF SINS . The trans- lator ...
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... verse is free and even musical in this elegy . The panegyric of the Pope on the soldier of the Cross is one of the most striking parts of it . When the death of the chivalrous prince is announced to his Holiness , Alas ! he said , is ...
... verse is free and even musical in this elegy . The panegyric of the Pope on the soldier of the Cross is one of the most striking parts of it . When the death of the chivalrous prince is announced to his Holiness , Alas ! he said , is ...
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... verse : - Ah ! freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking ; Freedom all solace to man gives : He lives at ease , that freely lives ! A noble heart may have none ease , Na ellys ( a ) nought that may him please , If ...
... verse : - Ah ! freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking ; Freedom all solace to man gives : He lives at ease , that freely lives ! A noble heart may have none ease , Na ellys ( a ) nought that may him please , If ...
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... verse so rugged , that his work is nearly a sealed book to the present age . His humour is more intelligible than his invective , as well as more facile . It is thus he ridicules the common tricks of the monks to procure donations for ...
... verse so rugged , that his work is nearly a sealed book to the present age . His humour is more intelligible than his invective , as well as more facile . It is thus he ridicules the common tricks of the monks to procure donations for ...
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