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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... Night .... 166 Song from the Masque of Beauty .... ... 167 RICHARD COrbet ............... .. .... ib . Farewell to the Faeries .... 168 WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE .... .... 170 Description of Lucrece asleep ....... 182 Description of the Steed ...
... Night .... 166 Song from the Masque of Beauty .... ... 167 RICHARD COrbet ............... .. .... ib . Farewell to the Faeries .... 168 WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE .... .... 170 Description of Lucrece asleep ....... 182 Description of the Steed ...
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... Night .... SPECIMENS OF LYRICAL , NARRATIVE , AND DESCRIP- 446 TIVE POETRY , FROM LIVING AUTHORS ........... 447 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ruth ........ ib . ib . Lines prefixed to the White Doe of Rylstone ...... 456 Sonnets .... 459 A ...
... Night .... SPECIMENS OF LYRICAL , NARRATIVE , AND DESCRIP- 446 TIVE POETRY , FROM LIVING AUTHORS ........... 447 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ruth ........ ib . ib . Lines prefixed to the White Doe of Rylstone ...... 456 Sonnets .... 459 A ...
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... night of obscu- rity ; and on his death the splendour of this illus- trious dawn suffered an eclipse of nearly two cen- turies , when the Reformation ushered in the most poetical period of the English annals , the reign of Elizabeth ...
... night of obscu- rity ; and on his death the splendour of this illus- trious dawn suffered an eclipse of nearly two cen- turies , when the Reformation ushered in the most poetical period of the English annals , the reign of Elizabeth ...
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... night on the beach where the seagulls , whose plumes 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 ...
... night on the beach where the seagulls , whose plumes 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 ...
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... night favourable to love , pourtrays as stealing to the ramparts of Troy to gaze on the Grecian tents- -Sighing his soul towards the Grecian camp Where Creseide lay that night . But the full scope of Chaucer's matured powers was ...
... night favourable to love , pourtrays as stealing to the ramparts of Troy to gaze on the Grecian tents- -Sighing his soul towards the Grecian camp Where Creseide lay that night . But the full scope of Chaucer's matured powers was ...
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