Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 12Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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... verse , and with his peculiar grace and wit . After this , surely no apology can be necessary for Academical Dissertation which he first published in 1709 upon the subject of Reynard , and afterwards prefixed to the reprint of the Low ...
... verse , and with his peculiar grace and wit . After this , surely no apology can be necessary for Academical Dissertation which he first published in 1709 upon the subject of Reynard , and afterwards prefixed to the reprint of the Low ...
Page xxiii
... ( verse 1514 ) , and that this excursion of the fox and the wolf is not spoken of as if it had caused them to quit their own country , is sufficiently explained by the political circumstances of the times . By the marriage of Philip of ...
... ( verse 1514 ) , and that this excursion of the fox and the wolf is not spoken of as if it had caused them to quit their own country , is sufficiently explained by the political circumstances of the times . By the marriage of Philip of ...
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... verses , the prin- cipal part being occupied with the story of the lion's illness , told by the wolf , as explanatory of the feud between the fox and himself , and the anger of the king of beasts against the fox , who alone neglected to ...
... verses , the prin- cipal part being occupied with the story of the lion's illness , told by the wolf , as explanatory of the feud between the fox and himself , and the anger of the king of beasts against the fox , who alone neglected to ...
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... verses , and , though consi- derably shorter than the Latin poem " Reinardus Vulpes , " published by Mone , it is not only obviously of greater antiquity , but surpasses it in the power of description which it displays . It comprises ...
... verses , and , though consi- derably shorter than the Latin poem " Reinardus Vulpes , " published by Mone , it is not only obviously of greater antiquity , but surpasses it in the power of description which it displays . It comprises ...
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... verse detached stories selected from a whole cycle of romance , that cycle was one which had long been current in the songs and traditions of the people . ยง XI . The poem which we have just examined forms a portion of , or rather is ...
... verse detached stories selected from a whole cycle of romance , that cycle was one which had long been current in the songs and traditions of the people . ยง XI . The poem which we have just examined forms a portion of , or rather is ...
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