Reliques of ancient English poetry, by T. Percy. Repr. entire from the author's last ed. With memoir and critical dissertation, by G. Gilfillan, Том 31877 |
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... kind were in verse , and usually sung to the harp . ON THE ANCIENT METRICAL ROMANCES , ETC. I. The first attempts at composition among all barbarous na- tions are ever found to be Poetry and Song . The praises of their gods and the ...
... kind were in verse , and usually sung to the harp . ON THE ANCIENT METRICAL ROMANCES , ETC. I. The first attempts at composition among all barbarous na- tions are ever found to be Poetry and Song . The praises of their gods and the ...
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... kind , whether in prose or verse , whether in Italian , French , English , & c . are chiefly on the sub- jects of Charlemagne , and the Paladines ; or of our British Arthur , and his Knights of the Round Table , & c . being evidently ...
... kind , whether in prose or verse , whether in Italian , French , English , & c . are chiefly on the sub- jects of Charlemagne , and the Paladines ; or of our British Arthur , and his Knights of the Round Table , & c . being evidently ...
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... kind appear too familiar to the northern Scalds , and enter too deeply into all the northern mythology to have been transmitted to the unlettered Scandinavians , from so distant a country , at so late a period ? If they may not be ...
... kind appear too familiar to the northern Scalds , and enter too deeply into all the northern mythology to have been transmitted to the unlettered Scandinavians , from so distant a country , at so late a period ? If they may not be ...
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... kind the Scalds early be- gan to decorate their narratives : and they were the more lavish of these , in proportion as they departed from their original institu- tion , but it was a long time before they thought of delivering a set of ...
... kind the Scalds early be- gan to decorate their narratives : and they were the more lavish of these , in proportion as they departed from their original institu- tion , but it was a long time before they thought of delivering a set of ...
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... kind of romantic poems among the French and English . 5 4 But this is not all ; it is very certain , that both the Anglo- Saxons and the Franks had brought with them , at their first immi- grations into Britain and Gaul , the same ...
... kind of romantic poems among the French and English . 5 4 But this is not all ; it is very certain , that both the Anglo- Saxons and the Franks had brought with them , at their first immi- grations into Britain and Gaul , the same ...
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