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... I mean the fragment of Simonides ( unhappily it is but a fragment ) , preserved to us by Dionysius Halicarnassensis ; and yet , I believe that no one will imagine that Lydgate had ever seen or heard of it .
... I mean the fragment of Simonides ( unhappily it is but a fragment ) , preserved to us by Dionysius Halicarnassensis ; and yet , I believe that no one will imagine that Lydgate had ever seen or heard of it .
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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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Now Spring has clad the grove in green , And strew'd the lea wi ' flowers ; The furrow'd waving corn is seen Rejoice in fostering showers : While ilka thing in nature join Their sorrows to forego , O why thus all alone are mine The ...
Now Spring has clad the grove in green , And strew'd the lea wi ' flowers ; The furrow'd waving corn is seen Rejoice in fostering showers : While ilka thing in nature join Their sorrows to forego , O why thus all alone are mine The ...
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... the cha- racter of his inimitable tale ; yet through all its variations it was melody itself . He was of great personal strength , and proud too of displaying it ; and I have seen him lift a load with ease which few ordinary men ...
... the cha- racter of his inimitable tale ; yet through all its variations it was melody itself . He was of great personal strength , and proud too of displaying it ; and I have seen him lift a load with ease which few ordinary men ...
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... “ To the parson of Guisely for his livery , 13s . 4d . ; " a strange term for the robes of one who appears to have acted as chaplain to the family . We have seen , from the complaints of his father , that this nobleman ...
... “ To the parson of Guisely for his livery , 13s . 4d . ; " a strange term for the robes of one who appears to have acted as chaplain to the family . We have seen , from the complaints of his father , that this nobleman ...
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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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