An Essay on English Poetry; with notices of the British poets. [Edited by Peter Cunningham.]John Murray, 1848 - 436 pages |
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... England was like that of a great inundation , which at first buries the face of the landscape under its waters , but which , at last sub- siding , leaves behind it the elements of new beauty and fertility . Its first effect was to ...
... England was like that of a great inundation , which at first buries the face of the landscape under its waters , but which , at last sub- siding , leaves behind it the elements of new beauty and fertility . Its first effect was to ...
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... England acquired the new form of her language , which was destined to carry to the ends of the earth the blessings from which it sprang . In the formation of English from its Saxon and Norman ma- terials , the genius of the native ...
... England acquired the new form of her language , which was destined to carry to the ends of the earth the blessings from which it sprang . In the formation of English from its Saxon and Norman ma- terials , the genius of the native ...
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... England by the first kings of the new dynasty . This encouragement , and the consequent cultivation of the northern dialect of French , gave it so much the superiority over the southern or troubadour dialect , that the French language ...
... England by the first kings of the new dynasty . This encouragement , and the consequent cultivation of the northern dialect of French , gave it so much the superiority over the southern or troubadour dialect , that the French language ...
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... England down to the time of Edward I. , in the beginning of whose reign he died . The topographical , as well as narrative , minuteness of his ' Chronicle ' has made it a valuable authority to antiquaries ; and as such it was consulted ...
... England down to the time of Edward I. , in the beginning of whose reign he died . The topographical , as well as narrative , minuteness of his ' Chronicle ' has made it a valuable authority to antiquaries ; and as such it was consulted ...
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... England , in two parts , compiled from the works of Wace and Peter de Lang- toft.t The declared object of his work ... England . He wrote an entire History of England ' in French rhymes , down to the end of the reign of Edward I.- Robert ...
... England , in two parts , compiled from the works of Wace and Peter de Lang- toft.t The declared object of his work ... England . He wrote an entire History of England ' in French rhymes , down to the end of the reign of Edward I.- Robert ...
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