Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ...J. Dodsley, 1823 |
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... writing : and , to take off from the tediousness of the longer narratives , they are every where intermingled with little elegant pieces of the lyric kind . Select ballads in the old Scottish dialect , most of them of the first rate ...
... writing : and , to take off from the tediousness of the longer narratives , they are every where intermingled with little elegant pieces of the lyric kind . Select ballads in the old Scottish dialect , most of them of the first rate ...
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... writing the transcripts , who was often weary of his task . * To the same learned and ingenious friend , since Master of Emanuel College , the Editor is obliged for many corrections and improvements in his second and subsequent Editions ...
... writing the transcripts , who was often weary of his task . * To the same learned and ingenious friend , since Master of Emanuel College , the Editor is obliged for many corrections and improvements in his second and subsequent Editions ...
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Thomas Percy. could only be known to us through the medium of the British writers : for the first Saxons , a martial but unlettered people , had no historians of their own ; and Geoffry , with all his fables , is allowed to have recorded ...
Thomas Percy. could only be known to us through the medium of the British writers : for the first Saxons , a martial but unlettered people , had no historians of their own ; and Geoffry , with all his fables , is allowed to have recorded ...
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... writer ( s ) makes no scruple to refer to them the origin of all modern Poetry , and shows that they were celebrated for their Songs near a century before the Troubadours of Provence , who are supposed to have led the way to the Poets ...
... writer ( s ) makes no scruple to refer to them the origin of all modern Poetry , and shows that they were celebrated for their Songs near a century before the Troubadours of Provence , who are supposed to have led the way to the Poets ...
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... writers ; so that , unless they were accidentally connected with such events as became recorded in history , they would pass unnoticed through the lapse of ages , and be as unknown to posterity as other topics relating to the private ...
... writers ; so that , unless they were accidentally connected with such events as became recorded in history , they would pass unnoticed through the lapse of ages , and be as unknown to posterity as other topics relating to the private ...
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