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... Gavin Douglas's indignation : He translates the Æneid himself . Earl of Surrey translates Books ii . and iv . of the Æneid into blank verse . Thomas Phaër's translation of the Eneid . Specimens of the translations of Douglas , Surrey ...
... Gavin Douglas's indignation : He translates the Æneid himself . Earl of Surrey translates Books ii . and iv . of the Æneid into blank verse . Thomas Phaër's translation of the Eneid . Specimens of the translations of Douglas , Surrey ...
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... Douglas , but left no children . The history of Scotland , from the accession of James I. down to the period when ... Gavin Douglas . But a IV 105 THE IDEA OF THE STATE IN POETRY moralising Comparison of Lyndsay's method of moralising ...
... Douglas , but left no children . The history of Scotland , from the accession of James I. down to the period when ... Gavin Douglas . But a IV 105 THE IDEA OF THE STATE IN POETRY moralising Comparison of Lyndsay's method of moralising ...
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William John Courthope. William Dunbar and the scholarly Gavin Douglas . But a curse , like those recorded in the Greek legends , seemed to attend the family of Stuart , and in a moment of infatuation James entered on the fatal ...
William John Courthope. William Dunbar and the scholarly Gavin Douglas . But a curse , like those recorded in the Greek legends , seemed to attend the family of Stuart , and in a moment of infatuation James entered on the fatal ...
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... Gavin Douglas . From the former he derived most of the details of his ideal scenery ; he imitated the latter in associating the phenomena of Nature with the mournful events which made the subject of his poem , and with his own mood as ...
... Gavin Douglas . From the former he derived most of the details of his ideal scenery ; he imitated the latter in associating the phenomena of Nature with the mournful events which made the subject of his poem , and with his own mood as ...
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... Gavin Douglas , the course of the poem thus far resembles that which is employed by Lyndsay in his Dreme . But at this point the vast superiority of Sackville's imagination reveals itself . Instead of having recourse to the usual dream ...
... Gavin Douglas , the course of the poem thus far resembles that which is employed by Lyndsay in his Dreme . But at this point the vast superiority of Sackville's imagination reveals itself . Instead of having recourse to the usual dream ...
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