Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... lived ; and his " Flower and the Leaf " will sur- vive while the language endures as the fairy dream of a youthful poet . But Chaucer was eminently what the old romances call " a man of middle earth ; " and nature soon reclaimed his ...
... lived ; and his " Flower and the Leaf " will sur- vive while the language endures as the fairy dream of a youthful poet . But Chaucer was eminently what the old romances call " a man of middle earth ; " and nature soon reclaimed his ...
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... it may be proper to glance at the progress of society and literature before the birth , and during the previous ( a ) Swoon . ( b ) Then awaked . ( c ) Sighed . lifetime of Chaucer , who had now lived sixty- three ENGLISH POETRY . 11.
... it may be proper to glance at the progress of society and literature before the birth , and during the previous ( a ) Swoon . ( b ) Then awaked . ( c ) Sighed . lifetime of Chaucer , who had now lived sixty- three ENGLISH POETRY . 11.
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... lived sixty- three years , and been known as an author for more than half of that time . The birth of Chaucer , about the year 1328 , is not much below the period when the complete amalgamation of the Norman and Saxon races took place ...
... lived sixty- three years , and been known as an author for more than half of that time . The birth of Chaucer , about the year 1328 , is not much below the period when the complete amalgamation of the Norman and Saxon races took place ...
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... lived free May not know well the properte , The anger , na the wretched doom That is coupled to foul thraldom . But , if he had essayed it , Then all perquer ( c ) he should it wit , And should think freedom more to prize Than all the ...
... lived free May not know well the properte , The anger , na the wretched doom That is coupled to foul thraldom . But , if he had essayed it , Then all perquer ( c ) he should it wit , And should think freedom more to prize Than all the ...
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... ( t ) Else . ( k ) Royally . ( 1 ) Borne . ( h ) Fit . ( m ) For the purpose . ( n ) Lived . ( 0 ) Hack - horse . ( p ) Place of the Sun. ( g ) Moon . ( r ) Pilotship . And every creke in Bretagne and in Spaine : His ENGLISH POETRY . 45.
... ( t ) Else . ( k ) Royally . ( 1 ) Borne . ( h ) Fit . ( m ) For the purpose . ( n ) Lived . ( 0 ) Hack - horse . ( p ) Place of the Sun. ( g ) Moon . ( r ) Pilotship . And every creke in Bretagne and in Spaine : His ENGLISH POETRY . 45.
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