History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers]William and Robert Chambers, 1857 - 294 páginas |
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... not only possessed an original genius of the first order , but had improved himself by travel , and by all the learning of the times . Despising alike the dull old rhyming chro- niclers , and the more lively minstrels , he aimed.
... not only possessed an original genius of the first order , but had improved himself by travel , and by all the learning of the times . Despising alike the dull old rhyming chro- niclers , and the more lively minstrels , he aimed.
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... genius , was a clergyman , and flourished at the Scottish court from about the year 1500 to 1530. Some of his poems are humorous , and refer to humble life ; others are allegorical , and full of beautiful natural ima- gery ; a third ...
... genius , was a clergyman , and flourished at the Scottish court from about the year 1500 to 1530. Some of his poems are humorous , and refer to humble life ; others are allegorical , and full of beautiful natural ima- gery ; a third ...
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... genius ; and it is evidently his anti- quated language alone which prevents his works from being more generally known than they are . The third eminent Scottish poet of this era was GAVIN DOUGLAS , bishop of Dunkeld , who flourished ...
... genius ; and it is evidently his anti- quated language alone which prevents his works from being more generally known than they are . The third eminent Scottish poet of this era was GAVIN DOUGLAS , bishop of Dunkeld , who flourished ...
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... genius , neither the age of Pericles , nor the age of Augustus , nor the times of Leo X. , nor of Louis XIV . , can come at all into comparison ; for in that short period , we shall find the names of almost all the very great men that ...
... genius , neither the age of Pericles , nor the age of Augustus , nor the times of Leo X. , nor of Louis XIV . , can come at all into comparison ; for in that short period , we shall find the names of almost all the very great men that ...
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... genius of the author , so happily does he idealize almost every thing he touches on , and so lively is the flow of his verse , that we do not readily tire in perusing this vast mass of information . He seems to have followed the manner ...
... genius of the author , so happily does he idealize almost every thing he touches on , and so lively is the flow of his verse , that we do not readily tire in perusing this vast mass of information . He seems to have followed the manner ...
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