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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... eminently what the old romances call " a man of middle earth ; " and nature soon reclaimed his genius from the regions of pure fancy to a field better worthy of his energetic powers . Before the full vigour of his 8 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... eminently what the old romances call " a man of middle earth ; " and nature soon reclaimed his genius from the regions of pure fancy to a field better worthy of his energetic powers . Before the full vigour of his 8 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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... natural elegance and feeling than are found in many modern love - songs , goes on to say , - When the nytengale singès the wodes waxen grene , Lef , gras , and blosme , springes in Avril , I ween ; And love is to my herte gone with a ...
... natural elegance and feeling than are found in many modern love - songs , goes on to say , - When the nytengale singès the wodes waxen grene , Lef , gras , and blosme , springes in Avril , I ween ; And love is to my herte gone with a ...
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... nature , but by a different hand . Of this piece , called PIERCE THE PLOWMAN'S CREDE , Pope has left the follow- ing account : - " An ignorant plain man , having learned his Paternoster and Ave. Mary , wants to learn his creed . He asks ...
... nature , but by a different hand . Of this piece , called PIERCE THE PLOWMAN'S CREDE , Pope has left the follow- ing account : - " An ignorant plain man , having learned his Paternoster and Ave. Mary , wants to learn his creed . He asks ...
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... natural as it is happy . A promiscuous com- pany of twenty - nine persons , selected from the dif- ferent walks of private English life , assemble at the Tabard inn in Southwark , each , for favours received , having vowed a pilgrimage ...
... natural as it is happy . A promiscuous com- pany of twenty - nine persons , selected from the dif- ferent walks of private English life , assemble at the Tabard inn in Southwark , each , for favours received , having vowed a pilgrimage ...
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... Ram his halfè cours yronne , ( e ) And smalè foulès maken melodie , That slepen allè night with open eye , ( a ) Sweet . ( b ) Root . ( c ) Such . ( d ) Forest . ( e ) Run . So priketh hem ( a ) nature in hir ( 34 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... Ram his halfè cours yronne , ( e ) And smalè foulès maken melodie , That slepen allè night with open eye , ( a ) Sweet . ( b ) Root . ( c ) Such . ( d ) Forest . ( e ) Run . So priketh hem ( a ) nature in hir ( 34 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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