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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... spirit , every thing which could make the Saxons remember they had ever been a people , or other than the bondsmen of their Norman lords . The Saxon tongue and manners , which were falling in- to contempt among the noble and polite even ...
... spirit , every thing which could make the Saxons remember they had ever been a people , or other than the bondsmen of their Norman lords . The Saxon tongue and manners , which were falling in- to contempt among the noble and polite even ...
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... spirit mette ( b ) That he her saw , and temple , and all the wise Right of her loke , and ' gan it new avise . The extreme delicacy and beauty of Creseide ( a ) Delay ; hinderance . ( b ) Dreamed . confessing her love amidst a scene of ...
... spirit mette ( b ) That he her saw , and temple , and all the wise Right of her loke , and ' gan it new avise . The extreme delicacy and beauty of Creseide ( a ) Delay ; hinderance . ( b ) Dreamed . confessing her love amidst a scene of ...
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... , for I go : And , Atropos , make ready thou my bere : And thou Creseidè , O sweet hertè dere , ( a ) Stops , ceases . ( b ) Assurance . ( d ) Together . ( c ) Ceased . Receivè now my spirit , would he say , With 10 HISTORY OF EARLY.
... , for I go : And , Atropos , make ready thou my bere : And thou Creseidè , O sweet hertè dere , ( a ) Stops , ceases . ( b ) Assurance . ( d ) Together . ( c ) Ceased . Receivè now my spirit , would he say , With 10 HISTORY OF EARLY.
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... spirit , would he say , With sword at herte , all redy for to dey . But as God would , of swough ( a ) she abraide , ( b ) And gan to sighe , and Troilus she cride : And he answerid , Lady mine Creseide , Livin ye yet ? And let his ...
... spirit , would he say , With sword at herte , all redy for to dey . But as God would , of swough ( a ) she abraide , ( b ) And gan to sighe , and Troilus she cride : And he answerid , Lady mine Creseide , Livin ye yet ? And let his ...
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... spirit , if it had ever existed in England , was dormant if not extinct ; and when Johnson said that " Chaucer was the first of our poets that wrote poetically , " he might have safely added , that he was also the first of our native ...
... spirit , if it had ever existed in England , was dormant if not extinct ; and when Johnson said that " Chaucer was the first of our poets that wrote poetically , " he might have safely added , that he was also the first of our native ...
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