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Thus , " most of the poets , " he adds , “ that im- mediately succeeded Chaucer , seem rather relapsing into barbarism , than availing themselves of those striking ornaments which his judgment and ima- gination had disclosed .
Thus , " most of the poets , " he adds , “ that im- mediately succeeded Chaucer , seem rather relapsing into barbarism , than availing themselves of those striking ornaments which his judgment and ima- gination had disclosed .
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... greatest poets . The learned reader will see the resemblance they bear to one of the most admirable remnants of all antiquity , I mean the fragment of Simonides ( unhappily it is but a fragment ) , preserved to us by Dionysius ...
... greatest poets . The learned reader will see the resemblance they bear to one of the most admirable remnants of all antiquity , I mean the fragment of Simonides ( unhappily it is but a fragment ) , preserved to us by Dionysius ...
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Than The Thistle and the Rose , and The Golden Terge of the Scottish bard , there cannot be two poems of similar length which exhibit greater warmth and luxuriancy of description , or greater skill in the in- vention and arrangement of ...
Than The Thistle and the Rose , and The Golden Terge of the Scottish bard , there cannot be two poems of similar length which exhibit greater warmth and luxuriancy of description , or greater skill in the in- vention and arrangement of ...
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Of this description , amongst many others , are the poems entitled “ The Daunce , ” " Lair is vain without Governance , " " On the Warlds Instabilitie , " " On Content , " " No Treasure without Gladnesse , " and the " Meditatioun ...
Of this description , amongst many others , are the poems entitled “ The Daunce , ” " Lair is vain without Governance , " " On the Warlds Instabilitie , " " On Content , " " No Treasure without Gladnesse , " and the " Meditatioun ...
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Where , I will venture to reply , but in the person of BURNS ? who it may safely be asserted has rivalled these poets in humour , description , and moral satire , and even surpassed them in the pathetic , the ter- rible , and the ...
Where , I will venture to reply , but in the person of BURNS ? who it may safely be asserted has rivalled these poets in humour , description , and moral satire , and even surpassed them in the pathetic , the ter- rible , and 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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