Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2J. Murray, 1828 |
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... appear to have been insensible to his vigour of versification , and his flights of fancy . It was not , indeed , likely that a poet should soon arise equal to Chaucer : and it must be remembered that the national distractions which ...
... appear to have been insensible to his vigour of versification , and his flights of fancy . It was not , indeed , likely that a poet should soon arise equal to Chaucer : and it must be remembered that the national distractions which ...
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... appears , indeed , at no time more at home than when painting this beautiful period of the day and year , and his landscapes seem glowing as it were with all the dewy freshness of nature . He tells us , in short , that nothing could ...
... appears , indeed , at no time more at home than when painting this beautiful period of the day and year , and his landscapes seem glowing as it were with all the dewy freshness of nature . He tells us , in short , that nothing could ...
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... appear a difficult and a dangerous task to enter into competition with passages such as I have now given ; yet , rich and appropriate as these Chaucerian pictures must be esteemed , they are ri- valled , if not surpassed , by the ...
... appear a difficult and a dangerous task to enter into competition with passages such as I have now given ; yet , rich and appropriate as these Chaucerian pictures must be esteemed , they are ri- valled , if not surpassed , by the ...
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... appear , Through golden skyis putting up his head , Quhois gilt tresses shone so wonder clear , That all the world take comfort far and near.— And , as the blissful son of cherarchy * , The fowlis sung through comfort of the light ; The ...
... appear , Through golden skyis putting up his head , Quhois gilt tresses shone so wonder clear , That all the world take comfort far and near.— And , as the blissful son of cherarchy * , The fowlis sung through comfort of the light ; The ...
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... appears , that the more the subject is in- vestigated , the more clearly will that authenticity be esta- blished . " - Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian , pp . Ixiii . — lxv . lxvi . early in the third century ...
... appears , that the more the subject is in- vestigated , the more clearly will that authenticity be esta- blished . " - Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian , pp . Ixiii . — lxv . lxvi . early in the third century ...
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