The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are Prefixed, Three Dissertations. 1. Of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. 2. On the Introduction of Learning Into England 3. On the Gesta Romanorum, Volume 3T. Tegg, 1824 - English poetry |
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... church , archdeacon of Colchester , prebendary of saint Paul's , and canon of saint Stephen's chapel at Westminster , ` translated Cato's * Disadvantageous suspicions against the chastity of the female religious were pretended in ...
... church , archdeacon of Colchester , prebendary of saint Paul's , and canon of saint Stephen's chapel at Westminster , ` translated Cato's * Disadvantageous suspicions against the chastity of the female religious were pretended in ...
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... church . He was patronised by Humphrey duke of Glo- cester , to whom he dedicates his book . This I ought to have remarked before . f Wood , Ant . Univ . Oxon . i . 117 . See also MSS . Reg . 17 C. viii . p . 2 . [ But the same lines ...
... church . He was patronised by Humphrey duke of Glo- cester , to whom he dedicates his book . This I ought to have remarked before . f Wood , Ant . Univ . Oxon . i . 117 . See also MSS . Reg . 17 C. viii . p . 2 . [ But the same lines ...
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... church , which was regularly followed by a feast in the convent . It is probable , that the GEST here specified was some poetical legend of the prelate , to whose memory this yearly festival was instituted , and who was a Saxon bishop ...
... church , which was regularly followed by a feast in the convent . It is probable , that the GEST here specified was some poetical legend of the prelate , to whose memory this yearly festival was instituted , and who was a Saxon bishop ...
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... church of our poet's monastery . Bradshaw is not so fond of relating visions and miracles as his argument seems to pro- mise . Although concerned with three saints , he deals more in plain facts than in the fictions of religious romance ...
... church of our poet's monastery . Bradshaw is not so fond of relating visions and miracles as his argument seems to pro- mise . Although concerned with three saints , he deals more in plain facts than in the fictions of religious romance ...
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... church , to which his convent was annexed , in the year 1513. Bale , a violent re- former , observes , that our poet was a person remarkably pious for the times in which he flourished . This is an indirect sa- tire on the monks , and on ...
... church , to which his convent was annexed , in the year 1513. Bale , a violent re- former , observes , that our poet was a person remarkably pious for the times in which he flourished . This is an indirect sa- tire on the monks , and on ...
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