Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date. Volume the First. [-third.].J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall., 1765 |
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... such marvelous fictions , as were cal- culated to captivate grofs and ignorant minds . Thus began ftories of adventures with giants and dragons , and witches and enchanters , and all the monstrous extravagances of wild imagination ...
... such marvelous fictions , as were cal- culated to captivate grofs and ignorant minds . Thus began ftories of adventures with giants and dragons , and witches and enchanters , and all the monstrous extravagances of wild imagination ...
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... Such a publication would answer many important uses : It would throw new light on the rife and progress of English poetry , the hiftory of which can be but imperfectly underflood , if these are neglected : it would also ferve to ...
... Such a publication would answer many important uses : It would throw new light on the rife and progress of English poetry , the hiftory of which can be but imperfectly underflood , if these are neglected : it would also ferve to ...
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... SUCH is the fable of this ancient piece : which the reader may obferve , is as regular in its conduct , as any of the finest poems of claffical antiquity . If the execution , particularly as to the diction and fentiments , were but ...
... SUCH is the fable of this ancient piece : which the reader may obferve , is as regular in its conduct , as any of the finest poems of claffical antiquity . If the execution , particularly as to the diction and fentiments , were but ...
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... SUCH READERS , AS HAVE NO RELISH FOR PURE ANTIQUITY , WILL FIND A MORE MODERN COPY OF THIS BALLAD AT THE END OF THE VOLUME . N the third day of may , IN To Carleile IN 2 ANCIENT SONGS The Marriage of Sir Garvaine St George and the Dragon.
... SUCH READERS , AS HAVE NO RELISH FOR PURE ANTIQUITY , WILL FIND A MORE MODERN COPY OF THIS BALLAD AT THE END OF THE VOLUME . N the third day of may , IN To Carleile IN 2 ANCIENT SONGS The Marriage of Sir Garvaine St George and the Dragon.
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... Such dreames are never good . 30 I dreamt my bower was full of red swine , And my bride - bed full of blood . Such dreams , fuch dreams , my honoured Sir , They never do prove good ; To dream thy bower was full of ' red ' fwine , 35 And ...
... Such dreames are never good . 30 I dreamt my bower was full of red swine , And my bride - bed full of blood . Such dreams , fuch dreams , my honoured Sir , They never do prove good ; To dream thy bower was full of ' red ' fwine , 35 And ...
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