A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresGinn, 1904 - 558 pages |
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... cantos , contains much interesting matter of the autobio- graphical sort . Andrew Wynton , author of " The Ori- ginale Cronykil , " was a canon of St. Andrew's , and prior of St. Serf's , the monastery on the island in Loch Leven . His ...
... cantos , contains much interesting matter of the autobio- graphical sort . Andrew Wynton , author of " The Ori- ginale Cronykil , " was a canon of St. Andrew's , and prior of St. Serf's , the monastery on the island in Loch Leven . His ...
Page 51
... of them , that " having travelled into Italie , and there tasted the sweet and stately measures and style 1 Scott's " Lay of the Last Minstrel , " canto vi . of the Italian poesie , as novises newly crept out REVIVAL OF LEARNING . 51.
... of them , that " having travelled into Italie , and there tasted the sweet and stately measures and style 1 Scott's " Lay of the Last Minstrel , " canto vi . of the Italian poesie , as novises newly crept out REVIVAL OF LEARNING . 51.
Page 80
... cantos on Mutability , a fragment of the Legend on Constancy . Whether any or what other portions of them were ever written , is not certainly known . It would be vain to attempt , within the limits here prescribed to us , to do justice ...
... cantos on Mutability , a fragment of the Legend on Constancy . Whether any or what other portions of them were ever written , is not certainly known . It would be vain to attempt , within the limits here prescribed to us , to do justice ...
Page 164
... cantos , and then gave up the design . It needed a more stern determina- tion than his to carry through such a work to a success- ful determination . He felt this , nor doubted that the right poet would be found . He says of the " Da ...
... cantos , and then gave up the design . It needed a more stern determina- tion than his to carry through such a work to a success- ful determination . He felt this , nor doubted that the right poet would be found . He says of the " Da ...
Page 192
... cantos being clearly imitated from those of Spenser . The political importance of the poem was great . It turned the laugh against those terrible Puritans , a handful of whom had so long held the nation down , and defeated , more ...
... cantos being clearly imitated from those of Spenser . The political importance of the poem was great . It turned the laugh against those terrible Puritans , a handful of whom had so long held the nation down , and defeated , more ...
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