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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... happy and lively , delighting more in sunshine than gloom , in beauty rather than wildness or grandeur - often picturesque , seldom sublime . But though great in every walk , in the painting of living manners he has no preceding nor ...
... happy and lively , delighting more in sunshine than gloom , in beauty rather than wildness or grandeur - often picturesque , seldom sublime . But though great in every walk , in the painting of living manners he has no preceding nor ...
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... happy genius , and in ac- quiring the accomplishments suited to his age and rank . Besides that skill in polite letters , of which his poetry leaves unquestionable proof , he excelled in all martial and knightly exercises , in music ...
... happy genius , and in ac- quiring the accomplishments suited to his age and rank . Besides that skill in polite letters , of which his poetry leaves unquestionable proof , he excelled in all martial and knightly exercises , in music ...
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... happy exercise ! By thee come I to joy out of torment : - But now to purpose of my first entent . XI . Bewailing in my chamber thus alone . Despaired of all joy and remedy , For - tired of my thought , and woe - begone , Unto the window ...
... happy exercise ! By thee come I to joy out of torment : - But now to purpose of my first entent . XI . Bewailing in my chamber thus alone . Despaired of all joy and remedy , For - tired of my thought , and woe - begone , Unto the window ...
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... rich till they cloy ; his language has a kind of ill - assorted splendour , which , however , is often pleasing ; his images and epithets are occa- sionally original and happy ; and amidst his ornate writing 76 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... rich till they cloy ; his language has a kind of ill - assorted splendour , which , however , is often pleasing ; his images and epithets are occa- sionally original and happy ; and amidst his ornate writing 76 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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... happy ; and amidst his ornate writing he has many agreeable little touches of nationality . SIR DAVID LYNDSAY belongs to a rather later period of our poetical history . He was born in 1490 , and educated at St Andrews , long the most ...
... happy ; and amidst his ornate writing he has many agreeable little touches of nationality . SIR DAVID LYNDSAY belongs to a rather later period of our poetical history . He was born in 1490 , and educated at St Andrews , long the most ...
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