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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... ... ib . 190 191 196 200 ib . 201 ib . 202 204 The Consolations of the Muse ............... 205 The Shepherd's Resolution ..... ................................................... ......... 207 ROBERT HERRICK , Song ........ The Nightly ...
... ... ib . 190 191 196 200 ib . 201 ib . 202 204 The Consolations of the Muse ............... 205 The Shepherd's Resolution ..... ................................................... ......... 207 ROBERT HERRICK , Song ........ The Nightly ...
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... muse , even at this early period , are , how- ever , more pleasing than her subsequent dull scho- lastic pedantry , as the prattle of an ingenuous child is more delightful than the conceited display of a precocious school - boy . The ...
... muse , even at this early period , are , how- ever , more pleasing than her subsequent dull scho- lastic pedantry , as the prattle of an ingenuous child is more delightful than the conceited display of a precocious school - boy . The ...
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... muses as Blondel , Fouquett , and Fayditt , the celebrated French minstrels of COEUR DE LION , had done before him . Advancing to the reign of Edward the First , we have Robert of Gloucester , a monk who wrote a 14 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... muses as Blondel , Fouquett , and Fayditt , the celebrated French minstrels of COEUR DE LION , had done before him . Advancing to the reign of Edward the First , we have Robert of Gloucester , a monk who wrote a 14 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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... muse , is an Elegy on the Death of Edward the First , which marks the gradual progress of the lan- guage , and shows the rudiments of the elegiac ballad , of which so many fine specimens afterwards enriched the national poetry . Edward ...
... muse , is an Elegy on the Death of Edward the First , which marks the gradual progress of the lan- guage , and shows the rudiments of the elegiac ballad , of which so many fine specimens afterwards enriched the national poetry . Edward ...
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... muse had been happily nearly silenced , but nothing had been invented to supply its place ; the language was still unsettled and rugged , the phraseology quaint and scanty ; the diction , the numbers , and the music of poetry , were ...
... muse had been happily nearly silenced , but nothing had been invented to supply its place ; the language was still unsettled and rugged , the phraseology quaint and scanty ; the diction , the numbers , and the music of poetry , were ...
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