The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Harper, 1851 - 576 pages |
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... Verses on her own Feelings .. 146 JOHN HARRINGTON ....... 146 Sonnet on Isabella Markham .. .... 146 THOMAS SACKVILLE .. 147 Allegorical Personages in the Infernal Regions .. 148 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY .. 150 Sonnet on Pride ....... 150 ...
... Verses on her own Feelings .. 146 JOHN HARRINGTON ....... 146 Sonnet on Isabella Markham .. .... 146 THOMAS SACKVILLE .. 147 Allegorical Personages in the Infernal Regions .. 148 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY .. 150 Sonnet on Pride ....... 150 ...
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... verses ' which he had never heard before , ' and which are said to have been as follows : - Now we shall praise the ... verse . Cadmon went home with his task , and the next morn- ing he produced a poem which excelled in beauty , all ...
... verses ' which he had never heard before , ' and which are said to have been as follows : - Now we shall praise the ... verse . Cadmon went home with his task , and the next morn- ing he produced a poem which excelled in beauty , all ...
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... verse the whole of the sacred history . We are told that he was continually occupied in repeating to himself what he heard , and , ' like a clean animal , ruminating it , he turned it into most sweet verse . ' Cadmon thus composed many ...
... verse the whole of the sacred history . We are told that he was continually occupied in repeating to himself what he heard , and , ' like a clean animal , ruminating it , he turned it into most sweet verse . ' Cadmon thus composed many ...
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... verse , nor rhymed , but that the only peculiarity which distinguishes it from prose , is a regular alliteration in the original , so arranged that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the line beginning with the same ...
... verse , nor rhymed , but that the only peculiarity which distinguishes it from prose , is a regular alliteration in the original , so arranged that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the line beginning with the same ...
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... verse ; Thorold , who wrote the fine romance of Roland ; Sampson de Nanteuil , who translated the Proverbs of Solomon into French verse ; Geoffroi Gaimar , author of a chronicle of the Anglo - Saxon kings ; and David , a trouvere of ...
... verse ; Thorold , who wrote the fine romance of Roland ; Sampson de Nanteuil , who translated the Proverbs of Solomon into French verse ; Geoffroi Gaimar , author of a chronicle of the Anglo - Saxon kings ; and David , a trouvere of ...
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