The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 Seiten |
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... POETS . 5. The Great Variety in the Kinds of Poetry - Classification of them . - 6 . Metrical Translations - Marlowe- Chapman - Fairfax - Sandys . - 7 . Historical Narrative Poems - Shakspeare - Daniel -Drayton - Giles and Phineas ...
... POETS . 5. The Great Variety in the Kinds of Poetry - Classification of them . - 6 . Metrical Translations - Marlowe- Chapman - Fairfax - Sandys . - 7 . Historical Narrative Poems - Shakspeare - Daniel -Drayton - Giles and Phineas ...
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... poet , accompany the beautiful series of extracts in Thomas Campbell's " Specimens of the British Poets , " which first appeared in 1819 , and is now in one volume , 8vo . The early Literature of Scotland is admirably treated in ...
... poet , accompany the beautiful series of extracts in Thomas Campbell's " Specimens of the British Poets , " which first appeared in 1819 , and is now in one volume , 8vo . The early Literature of Scotland is admirably treated in ...
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... poet's " Merchant of Venice " is doubly indebted , if not to the Latin " Gesta , " yet certainly to the English translation , or to some of the compilations which borrowed from its stores . For in it appeared , perhaps for the first ...
... poet's " Merchant of Venice " is doubly indebted , if not to the Latin " Gesta , " yet certainly to the English translation , or to some of the compilations which borrowed from its stores . For in it appeared , perhaps for the first ...
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... poets called themselves Troubadours , that is , Inventors ; just as our old English and Scottish poets were named Makers . Its poetry was chiefly lyrical , and became the favourite model of the earlier poets of Italy , affecting our own ...
... poets called themselves Troubadours , that is , Inventors ; just as our old English and Scottish poets were named Makers . Its poetry was chiefly lyrical , and became the favourite model of the earlier poets of Italy , affecting our own ...
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... poets of France . The Metrical Romances in the English tongue , which cele- brate Arthur and his Round Table , are ... poet , Thomas of Ercildoune , on grounds which , now , are generally ad- mitted to be unsatisfactory . But hardly ...
... poets of France . The Metrical Romances in the English tongue , which cele- brate Arthur and his Round Table , are ... poet , Thomas of Ercildoune , on grounds which , now , are generally ad- mitted to be unsatisfactory . But hardly ...
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