An Essay on English Poetry; with notices of the British poets. [Edited by Peter Cunningham.]John Murray, 1848 - 436 pages |
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... afterwards speaks of the vulgar English having suddenly superseded the pure and legitimate Saxon . Now , if the supposed period could be fixed with any degree of accuracy to thirty or forty years , one might waive the question whether a ...
... afterwards speaks of the vulgar English having suddenly superseded the pure and legitimate Saxon . Now , if the supposed period could be fixed with any degree of accuracy to thirty or forty years , one might waive the question whether a ...
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... afterwards flowed out from thence again in the shape of verse , with a force renewed by accumulation . Once more , as if destined to alternations , romance , after the fourteenth century , returned to the shape of prose , and in many ...
... afterwards flowed out from thence again in the shape of verse , with a force renewed by accumulation . Once more , as if destined to alternations , romance , after the fourteenth century , returned to the shape of prose , and in many ...
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... afterwards became a member of Brunne or Browne , a priory of black canons in the same county . His real surname was Man- nyng ; but the writers of history in those times ( as Hearne ob- serves ) were generally the religious , and when ...
... afterwards became a member of Brunne or Browne , a priory of black canons in the same county . His real surname was Man- nyng ; but the writers of history in those times ( as Hearne ob- serves ) were generally the religious , and when ...
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... afterwards divorced by the progress of litera- ture ; and primitive poetry is found to be the organ not only of ✓ history , but of science , * theology , and of law itself . The an- cient laws of the Athenians were sung at their public ...
... afterwards divorced by the progress of litera- ture ; and primitive poetry is found to be the organ not only of ✓ history , but of science , * theology , and of law itself . The an- cient laws of the Athenians were sung at their public ...
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... afterwards described by the name of William , wandering among the bushes of the Mal- vern hills , is overtaken by sleep , and dreams that he beholds a magnificent tower , which turns out to be the tower or fortress of Truth , and a ...
... afterwards described by the name of William , wandering among the bushes of the Mal- vern hills , is overtaken by sleep , and dreams that he beholds a magnificent tower , which turns out to be the tower or fortress of Truth , and a ...
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