Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1Chambers, 1858 - 811 pagina's |
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Pagina xiii
... Poetry and Poets , 402 Of Obscurity , . Of Procrastination , Vision of Oliver Cromwell , JAMES HARRINGTON , ALGERNON SIDNEY , Liberty and Government , LADY RACHEL RUSSELL , To Dr Fitzwilliam - On her Sorrow , To the Earl of Galway - On ...
... Poetry and Poets , 402 Of Obscurity , . Of Procrastination , Vision of Oliver Cromwell , JAMES HARRINGTON , ALGERNON SIDNEY , Liberty and Government , LADY RACHEL RUSSELL , To Dr Fitzwilliam - On her Sorrow , To the Earl of Galway - On ...
Pagina 1
... poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British ...
... poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British ...
Pagina 4
... poets of the south were called in their dialect trobadores , or troubadours , and those of the north were distinguished Maistre Wace also composed a History of the Nor- by the same title , written in their language trouveres . mans ...
... poets of the south were called in their dialect trobadores , or troubadours , and those of the north were distinguished Maistre Wace also composed a History of the Nor- by the same title , written in their language trouveres . mans ...
Pagina 11
... poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in which it is employed to point a moral lesson , to describe natural scenery , to convey satiric reflections , and give expression ...
... poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in which it is employed to point a moral lesson , to describe natural scenery , to convey satiric reflections , and give expression ...
Pagina 12
... poetry . Though our language had risen into importance with the rise of the Commons in the time of Edward I. , the French long kept possession of the court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar ...
... poetry . Though our language had risen into importance with the rise of the Commons in the time of Edward I. , the French long kept possession of the court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar ...
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