Hunter's TractsJ.R. Smith, 1850 |
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... the true era of the person who is the subject of so many of these ancient songs , and the class of persons to which he belonged , I venture to think that I deserve not the censure of being one. The Ballad - bero , Robin hood .
... the true era of the person who is the subject of so many of these ancient songs , and the class of persons to which he belonged , I venture to think that I deserve not the censure of being one. The Ballad - bero , Robin hood .
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... ballads , and is not independent of them , or correlative with them . And if his name may possibly be traced in contemporary writing , still it is to the songs that we must go to find out what manner of man he was , and the exploits ...
... ballads , and is not independent of them , or correlative with them . And if his name may possibly be traced in contemporary writing , still it is to the songs that we must go to find out what manner of man he was , and the exploits ...
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... Ballad , which was printed by Winkyn de Worde , in or about 1495 ; it is entitled The Lytel Geste of Robyn Hood ; and is a kind of life of him , or rather a small collection of the ballads strung together , so as to give a continuity to ...
... Ballad , which was printed by Winkyn de Worde , in or about 1495 ; it is entitled The Lytel Geste of Robyn Hood ; and is a kind of life of him , or rather a small collection of the ballads strung together , so as to give a continuity to ...
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... ballads incorporated in it is of an earlier period than the reign of Henry the Seventh ; the same indeed with those ... ballad hero . To fix precisely the period when songs such as these were written , is beyond our power ; but we ...
... ballads incorporated in it is of an earlier period than the reign of Henry the Seventh ; the same indeed with those ... ballad hero . To fix precisely the period when songs such as these were written , is beyond our power ; but we ...
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... ballads , the ballad , one of indisputable antiquity , being still in existence . At a little later period the exploits of a The French Song , or Lament , on the death of Simon Montfort , so beautifully translated by Mr. George Ellis ...
... ballads , the ballad , one of indisputable antiquity , being still in existence . At a little later period the exploits of a The French Song , or Lament , on the death of Simon Montfort , so beautifully translated by Mr. George Ellis ...
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Page 56 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 67 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Page 54 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed...
Page 59 - The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page 61 - The eternal regions : Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Page 66 - But men can ask, so that the invisible things of God are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; but by love of them, they are made subject unto them: and subjects cannot judge.
Page 56 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 48 - O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood: But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea ; He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?
Page 54 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 14 - I have seen not our own imaginative poet cause to fear that future ages will desire to summon him from his place of rest, as Milton longed ' To call up him who left half told The story of Cambuscan bold.