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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... 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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... poets , about the beginning of the thirteenth century . Af- ter ascertaining the origin of the language , therefore , the next most important object is to fix the genealogy of its poetical 4 Ginguené and Sismondi's Literary History of ...
... poets , about the beginning of the thirteenth century . Af- ter ascertaining the origin of the language , therefore , the next most important object is to fix the genealogy of its poetical 4 Ginguené and Sismondi's Literary History of ...
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... poet , and to him appears to be traced the first rude outline of the Petrarchal pas mal pour le temps , et pour uns sonnet . Brunetto Latini of Florence , and Guido Guinezilli of Bologna , are counted among the first who introduced on ...
... poet , and to him appears to be traced the first rude outline of the Petrarchal pas mal pour le temps , et pour uns sonnet . Brunetto Latini of Florence , and Guido Guinezilli of Bologna , are counted among the first who introduced on ...
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... poet and the directors of the infernal pastime . But it is in the style and sentiments of the poet that his true originality consists ; and where , in the works of preceding and contemporary versifiers , such as we have described them ...
... poet and the directors of the infernal pastime . But it is in the style and sentiments of the poet that his true originality consists ; and where , in the works of preceding and contemporary versifiers , such as we have described them ...
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... poet nor of the age in which he lived . In fact the lines may be regarded merely as presenting a periphrasis of the Deity ; and in this case , no special agency need be given to the Amore . Or , the word may be interpreted by contrast ...
... poet nor of the age in which he lived . In fact the lines may be regarded merely as presenting a periphrasis of the Deity ; and in this case , no special agency need be given to the Amore . Or , the word may be interpreted by contrast ...
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