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spirit and freedom of Dryden's versification is nobly exemplified in his expansion of the elder poet's ad- dress to May , where he has converted the two lines of his original into a picture of the most exquisite grace and beauty .
spirit and freedom of Dryden's versification is nobly exemplified in his expansion of the elder poet's ad- dress to May , where he has converted the two lines of his original into a picture of the most exquisite grace and beauty .
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sonal character and the works of the Scottish bard , should have been preserved with so much of its original raciness and vigour . These Irish poems , instead of assuming to them- selves the high antiquity which has been established for ...
sonal character and the works of the Scottish bard , should have been preserved with so much of its original raciness and vigour . These Irish poems , instead of assuming to them- selves the high antiquity which has been established for ...
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... country which has lately so singularly distinguished many of the most learned in Ireland , and with poetical talents fully adequate to the transfusion of the spirit of her originals , has the amiable translator entered upon her task ...
... country which has lately so singularly distinguished many of the most learned in Ireland , and with poetical talents fully adequate to the transfusion of the spirit of her originals , has the amiable translator entered upon her task ...
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move the origin of the Ossianic poems , from the third to the ninth or tenth , or eleventh century , the period to which the Irish originals of the transla- tions before us are to be attributed , we should gain nothing by the exchange ...
move the origin of the Ossianic poems , from the third to the ninth or tenth , or eleventh century , the period to which the Irish originals of the transla- tions before us are to be attributed , we should gain nothing by the exchange ...
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Of his lordship's expenses to London on this oc- casion , and during a residence there of five weeks and one day , a very curious account has been pre- served by Dodsworth , from an original in Skipton Castle which has now perished ...
Of his lordship's expenses to London on this oc- casion , and during a residence there of five weeks and one day , a very curious account has been pre- served by Dodsworth , from an original in Skipton Castle which has now perished ...
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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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