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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... Poem , in ten Cantos ; with other occasional Pieces ; by James Montgomery , Author of the Wanderer of Switzerland , the West Indies , & c . VII . The Nature of Things , a Didascalic Poem , translated from the Latin of Titus Lucretius ...
... Poem , in ten Cantos ; with other occasional Pieces ; by James Montgomery , Author of the Wanderer of Switzerland , the West Indies , & c . VII . The Nature of Things , a Didascalic Poem , translated from the Latin of Titus Lucretius ...
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... poets intervenes be- tween the age of Dante and that of Chaucer : yet the latter was but the morning star ' of English poetry ; the former is the meri- dian sun which rivals in splendour the brightest luminaries of all ages and nations ...
... poets intervenes be- tween the age of Dante and that of Chaucer : yet the latter was but the morning star ' of English poetry ; the former is the meri- dian sun which rivals in splendour the brightest luminaries of all ages and nations ...
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... poems of Dante , and of the few writers in Italian , who preceded him , abound in latinisms , which we find only ... poets , about the beginning of the thirteenth century . Af- ter ascertaining the origin of the language , therefore ...
... poems of Dante , and of the few writers in Italian , who preceded him , abound in latinisms , which we find only ... poets , about the beginning of the thirteenth century . Af- ter ascertaining the origin of the language , therefore ...
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... poets in whom the im- itation of the Provençaux is most conspicuous . Of these , the list of obscure sonneteers and canzonieri who preceded Dante , shall not detain us longer than is barely sufficient to mark the nature of the ...
... poets in whom the im- itation of the Provençaux is most conspicuous . Of these , the list of obscure sonneteers and canzonieri who preceded Dante , shall not detain us longer than is barely sufficient to mark the nature of the ...
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... poem , that amazing monument of unrivalled powers , can be judg- ed by itself alone ; and while the critic laboriously traces a few faint marks of imitation in the spirit of the age , in the works of worthless and forgotten ...
... poem , that amazing monument of unrivalled powers , can be judg- ed by itself alone ; and while the critic laboriously traces a few faint marks of imitation in the spirit of the age , in the works of worthless and forgotten ...
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