Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 pàgines |
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... appear to have been their pleasure : the enemy was at their doors , and the sword and spear were within their hands . The spirit of minstrelsy however was not quelled , it had charms for the rude soldier , and were other evidence of its ...
... appear to have been their pleasure : the enemy was at their doors , and the sword and spear were within their hands . The spirit of minstrelsy however was not quelled , it had charms for the rude soldier , and were other evidence of its ...
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... and exciting , gave rise to a flood of poetry in which the gallantry and extravagant heroism of the age appear in glowing colors . The dull and tedious rhyming chronicles that were before popular at once gave way to more 9.
... and exciting , gave rise to a flood of poetry in which the gallantry and extravagant heroism of the age appear in glowing colors . The dull and tedious rhyming chronicles that were before popular at once gave way to more 9.
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... appears probable that he studied at both . He afterwards visited France and the Low Countries , and on his return was entered at the Inner Temple , where we learn from an old record that " Geoffrey Chaucer was fined 2s . for beating a ...
... appears probable that he studied at both . He afterwards visited France and the Low Countries , and on his return was entered at the Inner Temple , where we learn from an old record that " Geoffrey Chaucer was fined 2s . for beating a ...
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... appears universal . He dazzles us with elaborate displays of Gothic magni- ficence ; but is equally powerful when he sketches the cottages of rustics . He is devotional , joyous , or satirical , without effort , and never o'erstepping ...
... appears universal . He dazzles us with elaborate displays of Gothic magni- ficence ; but is equally powerful when he sketches the cottages of rustics . He is devotional , joyous , or satirical , without effort , and never o'erstepping ...
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... appear to be wholly original . Boccacio in his Decameron had imagined the assembly of ten young persons at a country ... appears that the poet intended to describe their journey " and all the remenent of their pilgrimage ; " but the ...
... appear to be wholly original . Boccacio in his Decameron had imagined the assembly of ten young persons at a country ... appears that the poet intended to describe their journey " and all the remenent of their pilgrimage ; " but the ...
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