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They 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 ...
They 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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... title of these volumes , to enter upon one topic of resemblance amongst these poets more at large , and that is , their peculiar attachment to , and fondness for describing , the Mornings of Spring . Chaucer appears , indeed , at no ...
... title of these volumes , to enter upon one topic of resemblance amongst these poets more at large , and that is , their peculiar attachment to , and fondness for describing , the Mornings of Spring . Chaucer appears , indeed , at no ...
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It would 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 ...
It would 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 ...
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The poet and his conductress then enter a gar- den filled with flowers , and breathing odours re- dolent of paradise , when immediately The purple sun , with tender bemys red , In orient bright as angel did appear , Through golden skyis ...
The poet and his conductress then enter a gar- den filled with flowers , and breathing odours re- dolent of paradise , when immediately The purple sun , with tender bemys red , In orient bright as angel did appear , Through golden skyis ...
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And he then adds , “ it is very satisfactory to have been the means of bringing forward a new , and at the same time so convincing a proof of the authenticity of these ancient poems ; and hence indeed it appears , that the more the ...
And he then adds , “ it is very satisfactory to have been the means of bringing forward a new , and at the same time so convincing a proof of the authenticity of these ancient poems ; and hence indeed it appears , that the more the ...
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
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