The Quarterly Review, Volume 11William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1814 |
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... English Ship - builders . 2. Substance of the Speech of William Harrison , Esq . before the Select Committee of the House of Com- mons , on East India - built shipping . 3. Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- mittee to ...
... English Ship - builders . 2. Substance of the Speech of William Harrison , Esq . before the Select Committee of the House of Com- mons , on East India - built shipping . 3. Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- mittee to ...
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... English poetry ; the former is the meri- dian sun which rivals in splendour the brightest luminaries of all ages and nations . On the other hand , the language of Chaucer had been that of the people of England , and of English writers ...
... English poetry ; the former is the meri- dian sun which rivals in splendour the brightest luminaries of all ages and nations . On the other hand , the language of Chaucer had been that of the people of England , and of English writers ...
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... English reader , and yet , in the opinion of competent judges , they tend to raise the cha- racter of the poet much higher than those smaller compositions 6 of which the confined and embarrassing structure has not B 2 1814. Ginguené and ...
... English reader , and yet , in the opinion of competent judges , they tend to raise the cha- racter of the poet much higher than those smaller compositions 6 of which the confined and embarrassing structure has not B 2 1814. Ginguené and ...
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... English reader it presents the additional interest , of being the model of the Knighte's Tale ' of Chaucer , and the origin therefore of one of the noblest poems in our language , the ' Pa- lamon and Arcite ' of Dryden . The Latin works ...
... English reader it presents the additional interest , of being the model of the Knighte's Tale ' of Chaucer , and the origin therefore of one of the noblest poems in our language , the ' Pa- lamon and Arcite ' of Dryden . The Latin works ...
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... English reader better acquainted with these productions of the romantic épopée than he is already through Mr. Hoole's version of the latter , or his prefatory remarks and frequent illustrations of the former , poem . We are , at the ...
... English reader better acquainted with these productions of the romantic épopée than he is already through Mr. Hoole's version of the latter , or his prefatory remarks and frequent illustrations of the former , poem . We are , at the ...
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