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... legends and spirit stirring battle songs . The first poetry of an uncivilized race is always nervous and empassioned , abounding in grand but simple meta- phor , and preserving a tempestuous harmony through its irregular and unequal ...
... legends and spirit stirring battle songs . The first poetry of an uncivilized race is always nervous and empassioned , abounding in grand but simple meta- phor , and preserving a tempestuous harmony through its irregular and unequal ...
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... legends and receiving money and hospitality in return for their songs and tales , and for the exhibition of those feats of activity which formed part of their performance . They were at once poets , vocalists , and jugglers ; and ...
... legends and receiving money and hospitality in return for their songs and tales , and for the exhibition of those feats of activity which formed part of their performance . They were at once poets , vocalists , and jugglers ; and ...
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... descendants of the scalds , and to have been celebrated in the north of France long before the troubadours of Provence arose with their legends and romances in the south B 3 7 primitive their rhymes, or ordinary their feats, they ...
... descendants of the scalds , and to have been celebrated in the north of France long before the troubadours of Provence arose with their legends and romances in the south B 3 7 primitive their rhymes, or ordinary their feats, they ...
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... legends as fell within their reach . The prevalence of the French language amongst the Norman nobility , and its introduction into the court , tended to bring the old Anglo - Saxon tongue into disrepute , and the policy of the ...
... legends as fell within their reach . The prevalence of the French language amongst the Norman nobility , and its introduction into the court , tended to bring the old Anglo - Saxon tongue into disrepute , and the policy of the ...
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... legends of ancient mythology furnished them with subjects . All was tinged with the religious and warlike enthusiasm of the times . Their characters were as devout as valiant , and their gallantry to the fair sex almost fantastic . They ...
... legends of ancient mythology furnished them with subjects . All was tinged with the religious and warlike enthusiasm of the times . Their characters were as devout as valiant , and their gallantry to the fair sex almost fantastic . They ...
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Page 38 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
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Page 99 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 101 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 77 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 39 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Page 103 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 77 - Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes...
Page 101 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Page 103 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.