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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... England , it would gladly have been done , in the warm and sincere conviction , that no poems of nearly equal merit now remain to be freely diffused among them . Nearer home , I hope to be pardoned for not crowding into this narrow ...
... England , it would gladly have been done , in the warm and sincere conviction , that no poems of nearly equal merit now remain to be freely diffused among them . Nearer home , I hope to be pardoned for not crowding into this narrow ...
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... England ...... ... 467 469 .... 471 On Visiting a Scene in Argyleshire ........ 472 SIR WALTER SCOTT ............ Extract from Marmion ............ 474 ib . Invocation ( from the Lady of the Lake ) ............... 478 From Old Mortality ...
... England ...... ... 467 469 .... 471 On Visiting a Scene in Argyleshire ........ 472 SIR WALTER SCOTT ............ Extract from Marmion ............ 474 ib . Invocation ( from the Lady of the Lake ) ............... 478 From Old Mortality ...
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... England ....... The Grave of Korner ... The Voice of Spring ... ........ MISS LANDON ....... Ballad of Cresentius ......... Extracts from the REV . GEORGE CRABBE . Improvisatrice ... 519 Phoebe Dawson ...... 487 ib . 488 493 ib . 501 ...
... England ....... The Grave of Korner ... The Voice of Spring ... ........ MISS LANDON ....... Ballad of Cresentius ......... Extracts from the REV . GEORGE CRABBE . Improvisatrice ... 519 Phoebe Dawson ...... 487 ib . 488 493 ib . 501 ...
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... the fine specimens of poetry which remain of the Welsh bards , would lead us to form a higher estimate of the poetry of the kindred and neighbouring race of England , than any thing in the early annals of the country 2 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... the fine specimens of poetry which remain of the Welsh bards , would lead us to form a higher estimate of the poetry of the kindred and neighbouring race of England , than any thing in the early annals of the country 2 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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... glitter , sport on the bed of billows , and where herb . age growing in a solitary place is of a deep green . * That is , it was the hour of noon . tended the Danes in their subsequent invasion of England , 4 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... glitter , sport on the bed of billows , and where herb . age growing in a solitary place is of a deep green . * That is , it was the hour of noon . tended the Danes in their subsequent invasion of England , 4 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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