Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets; Together with Some Few of Later DateW.P. Nimmo, 1881 - 307 sidor |
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... probably made from de- fective copies , or the imperfect recitation of illite- rate singers ; so that a considerable portion of the sung or narrative is sometimes omitted ; and mi- serable trash or nonsense not unfrequently intro- duced ...
... probably made from de- fective copies , or the imperfect recitation of illite- rate singers ; so that a considerable portion of the sung or narrative is sometimes omitted ; and mi- serable trash or nonsense not unfrequently intro- duced ...
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... probably invent a few stanzas on occasion . I have no doubt but most of the old heroic Ballads in this collection Torfæi Præfat . ad Orcad . Hist .--- Pref . to " Five Pieces of Runic Poetry , " & c . were composed by this order of men ...
... probably invent a few stanzas on occasion . I have no doubt but most of the old heroic Ballads in this collection Torfæi Præfat . ad Orcad . Hist .--- Pref . to " Five Pieces of Runic Poetry , " & c . were composed by this order of men ...
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... probably composed by the minstrels who sang them . From the amazing variations which occur in different copies of the old pieces , it is evi- dent they made no scruple to alter each others pro- ductions ; and the reciter added or ...
... probably composed by the minstrels who sang them . From the amazing variations which occur in different copies of the old pieces , it is evi- dent they made no scruple to alter each others pro- ductions ; and the reciter added or ...
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... probably confined to such of their own country- men as excelled in the Minstrel arts ; and in the first ages after the conquest no other songs would be listened to by the great nobility , but such as were composed in their own Norman ...
... probably confined to such of their own country- men as excelled in the Minstrel arts ; and in the first ages after the conquest no other songs would be listened to by the great nobility , but such as were composed in their own Norman ...
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... probably did the one , and some the other and it would have been wonderful indeed if men whose peculiar profession it was , and who devoted their time and talents to entertain their hearers with poetical compositions , were peculiarly ...
... probably did the one , and some the other and it would have been wonderful indeed if men whose peculiar profession it was , and who devoted their time and talents to entertain their hearers with poetical compositions , were peculiarly ...
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