From Beowulf to Edward GibbonRobert Shafer Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931 - English literature |
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... poets . In our 20 neighbor country Ireland , where truly learn- ing goeth very bare , yet are their poets held in a devout reverence . Even among the most barbarous and simple Indians , where no writing is , yet have they their poets ...
... poets . In our 20 neighbor country Ireland , where truly learn- ing goeth very bare , yet are their poets held in a devout reverence . Even among the most barbarous and simple Indians , where no writing is , yet have they their poets ...
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... poetry , since there have been many most ex- cellent poets that never versified , and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets . For Xenophon , who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem justi ...
... poetry , since there have been many most ex- cellent poets that never versified , and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets . For Xenophon , who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem justi ...
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... poets , allegeth twice two poets , and great reason , since of all philosophers he is the most poetical ; yet if he will defile the fountain out of which his flowing streams have pro- ceeded , let us boldly examine with what rea- sons ...
... poets , allegeth twice two poets , and great reason , since of all philosophers he is the most poetical ; yet if he will defile the fountain out of which his flowing streams have pro- ceeded , let us boldly examine with what rea- sons ...
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