Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets, Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to Burns: With Criticisms on Their Works, Selected from the Most Distinguished Writersdirection of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, 1851 - 508 páginas |
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... eloquent and discriminating tribute to the genius of Chaucer . We give the passage without abridgment : - " With Spenser , Shakspeare , and Milton , he is one of the four great English Poets ; and it is with double justice that he is ...
... eloquent and discriminating tribute to the genius of Chaucer . We give the passage without abridgment : - " With Spenser , Shakspeare , and Milton , he is one of the four great English Poets ; and it is with double justice that he is ...
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... eloquent . We transcribe the following as a favourable speci- men : - " His poetry exhibits , in as remarkable a degree , perhaps , as any other in any language , an intermix- ture and combination of what are usually deemed the most ...
... eloquent . We transcribe the following as a favourable speci- men : - " His poetry exhibits , in as remarkable a degree , perhaps , as any other in any language , an intermix- ture and combination of what are usually deemed the most ...
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... eloquent of Chaucer's biogra- phers , Mr. Robert Aris Willmott , of Trinity College , Cambridge , observes , in his " Lives of the English Sacred Poets , " , " " Our heart turns to him with those feel- ings of reverence and affection ...
... eloquent of Chaucer's biogra- phers , Mr. Robert Aris Willmott , of Trinity College , Cambridge , observes , in his " Lives of the English Sacred Poets , " , " " Our heart turns to him with those feel- ings of reverence and affection ...
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... eloquence and spirit , and showed that he had worn the arms fourteen years without giving offence , and that they had been assigned to him by a decision of the heralds . But the fact being admitted , it was taken as sufficient evidence ...
... eloquence and spirit , and showed that he had worn the arms fourteen years without giving offence , and that they had been assigned to him by a decision of the heralds . But the fact being admitted , it was taken as sufficient evidence ...
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... eloquent denunciation against the vice of drunkenness , and his two beautiful let- ters to his wife , the one written after his condemnation , have been often quoted by critics as models of powerful writing . As a specimen of this manly ...
... eloquent denunciation against the vice of drunkenness , and his two beautiful let- ters to his wife , the one written after his condemnation , have been often quoted by critics as models of powerful writing . As a specimen of this manly ...
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