A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 páginas |
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... ballads was made ; and few , as we possess them , can be dated farther back than the reign of Elizabeth . " From Chevy Chase . ( Prof. Child's edition . ) The Persè owt off Northombarlande , And a vowe to God mayd he , That he wold ...
... ballads was made ; and few , as we possess them , can be dated farther back than the reign of Elizabeth . " From Chevy Chase . ( Prof. Child's edition . ) The Persè owt off Northombarlande , And a vowe to God mayd he , That he wold ...
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... ballad poem . But they are more likely to be by James V. ROBERT HENRYSON , who died before 1508 , a school - master in Dunfermline , was also an imitator of Chaucer , and his Testament of Cresseid continues Chaucer's Troilus . But he ...
... ballad poem . But they are more likely to be by James V. ROBERT HENRYSON , who died before 1508 , a school - master in Dunfermline , was also an imitator of Chaucer , and his Testament of Cresseid continues Chaucer's Troilus . But he ...
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... ballads that he wrote is matched only by their coarseness , a coarseness and a fun that descended to Burns . Perhaps Dunbar's genius is still higher in a wild poem in which he personifies the seven deadly sins , and describes their ...
... ballads that he wrote is matched only by their coarseness , a coarseness and a fun that descended to Burns . Perhaps Dunbar's genius is still higher in a wild poem in which he personifies the seven deadly sins , and describes their ...
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... ballads , and will not read these old books . But the reproach was unwise . It is better for the interests of literature to make a new ballad than to read an old poem , and the ballads of England kept up 86 Literature of Period III ...
... ballads , and will not read these old books . But the reproach was unwise . It is better for the interests of literature to make a new ballad than to read an old poem , and the ballads of England kept up 86 Literature of Period III ...
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... ballads of England kept up the original vein of poetry . It is one of the signs of a new poetic life in a nation when it is fond of poetry which , like the ballad , has to do with the human interests of the present : and , when that ...
... ballads of England kept up the original vein of poetry . It is one of the signs of a new poetic life in a nation when it is fond of poetry which , like the ballad , has to do with the human interests of the present : and , when that ...
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