Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2J. Murray, 1828 |
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... 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 . They appear to have been ...
... 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 . They appear to have been ...
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... 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 Halicarnassensis ...
... 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 Halicarnassensis ...
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... poems of similar length which exhibit greater warmth and luxuriancy of description , or greater skill in the in- vention and arrangement of the allegorical imagery . They certainly rival in opulence and strength of colouring the most ...
... poems of similar length which exhibit greater warmth and luxuriancy of description , or greater skill in the in- vention and arrangement of the allegorical imagery . They certainly rival in opulence and strength of colouring the most ...
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... poems entitled " The Daunce , " " Lair is vain without Governance , " " On the Warlds Instabilitie , " " On Content , " " No Treasure without Gladnesse , " and the " Meditatioun , Written in Wynter . " In depicting the passions or ...
... poems entitled " The Daunce , " " Lair is vain without Governance , " " On the Warlds Instabilitie , " " On Content , " " No Treasure without Gladnesse , " and the " Meditatioun , Written in Wynter . " In depicting the passions or ...
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... poets in humour , description , and moral satire , and even surpassed them in the pathetic , the ter , rible , and the sublime . Of the merits of a poet so well known , and so deservedly popular as is Robert Burns , it would , in the ...
... poets in humour , description , and moral satire , and even surpassed them in the pathetic , the ter , rible , and the sublime . Of the merits of a poet so well known , and so deservedly popular as is Robert Burns , it would , in the ...
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