The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... romance , ' treated with the simplicity and wildness of an ancient ballad , ' he received from the countess of Dalkeith a border legend of Gilpin Horner , with the suggestion that he might compose a ballad on it . He had then just ...
... romance , ' treated with the simplicity and wildness of an ancient ballad , ' he received from the countess of Dalkeith a border legend of Gilpin Horner , with the suggestion that he might compose a ballad on it . He had then just ...
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... romance was not primarily the romance of love , but the general romance of human life , of the world and its activities , and , more especially , of the warring , adventurous and , more or less , strange and curiosity - provoking past ...
... romance was not primarily the romance of love , but the general romance of human life , of the world and its activities , and , more especially , of the warring , adventurous and , more or less , strange and curiosity - provoking past ...
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... romance . His pictures of Spain , it is true , are mainly those of a realist and a rhetorician , but , when he has once set foot upon Turkish soil , a change appears ; here , his life was , in itself , a romantic adventure , and , among ...
... romance . His pictures of Spain , it is true , are mainly those of a realist and a rhetorician , but , when he has once set foot upon Turkish soil , a change appears ; here , his life was , in itself , a romantic adventure , and , among ...
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