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Page xi
... Reliques , printed for the first time many ballads which still are the best of their class , and was gifted with consummate skill and taste . Both , moreover , did their work scientifically , according to their lights ; and both have ...
... Reliques , printed for the first time many ballads which still are the best of their class , and was gifted with consummate skill and taste . Both , moreover , did their work scientifically , according to their lights ; and both have ...
Page xxxiii
... Reliques was issued in three volumes , in 1765. He received for it one hun- dred guineas , instant popularity and patronage , and subsequently , the gratitude of succeeding centuries . Nevertheless , Percy himself was so far under the ...
... Reliques was issued in three volumes , in 1765. He received for it one hun- dred guineas , instant popularity and patronage , and subsequently , the gratitude of succeeding centuries . Nevertheless , Percy himself was so far under the ...
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... Reliques , Percy sought to conciliate him by revising his texts , so as to approximate them more closely to his originals , but still Ritson cried out for the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . And by this time he had supporters ...
... Reliques , Percy sought to conciliate him by revising his texts , so as to approximate them more closely to his originals , but still Ritson cried out for the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . And by this time he had supporters ...
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... Reliques : ' I do not think that there is an able writer in verse of the present day who would not be proud to acknowledge his obligation to the Reliques . ' While failing often to catch the gusto of ancient poetry - witness his ...
... Reliques : ' I do not think that there is an able writer in verse of the present day who would not be proud to acknowledge his obligation to the Reliques . ' While failing often to catch the gusto of ancient poetry - witness his ...
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... Reliques . Sir Walter Scott remembered to the day of his death the place where he first made acquaint- ance with the Reliques in his thirteenth year . ' I remember well the spot where I read those volumes for the first time . It was ...
... Reliques . Sir Walter Scott remembered to the day of his death the place where he first made acquaint- ance with the Reliques in his thirteenth year . ' I remember well the spot where I read those volumes for the first time . It was ...
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