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... Layamon often embellishes and improves on his copy , and the meagre narrative of the French poet is heightened by graphic touches and details , which give him a just claim to be considered , not as a mere translator , but as an original ...
... Layamon often embellishes and improves on his copy , and the meagre narrative of the French poet is heightened by graphic touches and details , which give him a just claim to be considered , not as a mere translator , but as an original ...
Page 329
... Layamon's beyond comparison the most lofty and animated in its style , at every moment reminding the reader of the splendid phraseology of AngloSaxon verse . It may also be added , that the colloquial character of much of the work ...
... Layamon's beyond comparison the most lofty and animated in its style , at every moment reminding the reader of the splendid phraseology of AngloSaxon verse . It may also be added , that the colloquial character of much of the work ...
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... Layamon's ' Brut ' was written . This form , which we may , for the sake of distinction , call Anglo - Mercian , was adopted by influential writers and by the cultivated classes of the metropolis - becoming , by gradual modifications ...
... Layamon's ' Brut ' was written . This form , which we may , for the sake of distinction , call Anglo - Mercian , was adopted by influential writers and by the cultivated classes of the metropolis - becoming , by gradual modifications ...
Contents
The Lives of the Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal | 39 |
Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon Mistress of the Robes | 94 |
Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry Edited by two | 109 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 82 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1847 |
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