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Thus , " most of the poets , " he adds , “ that im- mediately succeeded Chaucer , seem rather relapsing into barbarism ... It was not , indeed , likely that a poet should soon arise equal to Chaucer : and it must be remembered that the ...
Thus , " most of the poets , " he adds , “ that im- mediately succeeded Chaucer , seem rather relapsing into barbarism ... It was not , indeed , likely that a poet should soon arise equal to Chaucer : and it must be remembered that the ...
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It is evident that a union of talents of this wide range must necessarily be of rare occurrence ; nor can we wonder that a century should elapse before a poet in any high degree approaching the genius of Chaucer made his appearance in ...
It is evident that a union of talents of this wide range must necessarily be of rare occurrence ; nor can we wonder that a century should elapse before a poet in any high degree approaching the genius of Chaucer made his appearance in ...
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Two instances of this kind are quoted by our great lyric poet , of which the second is beyond all praise , and shows how deeply the Monk of Bury could enter into the distresses of love and maternal fondness .
Two instances of this kind are quoted by our great lyric poet , of which the second is beyond all praise , and shows how deeply the Monk of Bury could enter into the distresses of love and maternal fondness .
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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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... with a pungency and originality of humour which has seldom , if ever , been surpassed . whom Boccaccio might borrow many of his ideas in this story , it will be easily seen , upon comparison , how far our poet has surpassed him .
... with a pungency and originality of humour which has seldom , if ever , been surpassed . whom Boccaccio might borrow many of his ideas in this story , it will be easily seen , upon comparison , how far our poet has surpassed him .
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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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