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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... poetry of Italy derives itself in a much more di- rect line from that of the Provençaux , and , through them , from the more distant source of Arabian literature , than from ancient Rome , of whose lyre the last faint and discordant ...
... poetry of Italy derives itself in a much more di- rect line from that of the Provençaux , and , through them , from the more distant source of Arabian literature , than from ancient Rome , of whose lyre the last faint and discordant ...
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... poetry , as detailed to us at considerable length and with great ingenuity by both the wri- ters whom we have chosen for our guides . T The capture of Toledo in 1083 , by Alonso VI , king of Castile and Leon , and the succession of ...
... poetry , as detailed to us at considerable length and with great ingenuity by both the wri- ters whom we have chosen for our guides . T The capture of Toledo in 1083 , by Alonso VI , king of Castile and Leon , and the succession of ...
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... poetry , must be admitted to have been highly favourable to its improvement , and calculated to confirm and exalt the character impressed upon it by a variety of previous circumstances . the But if the true parentage of the Provençal poetry ...
... poetry , must be admitted to have been highly favourable to its improvement , and calculated to confirm and exalt the character impressed upon it by a variety of previous circumstances . the But if the true parentage of the Provençal poetry ...
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... poetry ; but we feel that it would divert us too long from our main object , though it is possible we may revert to this part of the subject be- fore we have done with those early Italian poets in whom the im- itation of the Provençaux ...
... poetry ; but we feel that it would divert us too long from our main object , though it is possible we may revert to this part of the subject be- fore we have done with those early Italian poets in whom the im- itation of the Provençaux ...
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