A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... Scottish Gaelic are of much later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian- Fingal and Temora - which were published in 1762 and 1763 by James Macpherson , as translations from Gaelic manuscripts as old as the fourth ...
... Scottish Gaelic are of much later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian- Fingal and Temora - which were published in 1762 and 1763 by James Macpherson , as translations from Gaelic manuscripts as old as the fourth ...
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... Scottish country merry - makings . Ruling not wisely ( for himself at least ) , but too well , this cleverest of the royal Stuarts was stabbed to death in the Monas- tery of the Dominicans at Perth early in the year 1437. The murderers ...
... Scottish country merry - makings . Ruling not wisely ( for himself at least ) , but too well , this cleverest of the royal Stuarts was stabbed to death in the Monas- tery of the Dominicans at Perth early in the year 1437. The murderers ...
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... Scottish affairs . Another poem , called The Stewart , is said to have been written by Barbour ; but it has been lost . Two pensions , one of £ 10 Scots , the other of 20 shillings , were granted to the poet , both pro- LYDGATE , THE ...
... Scottish affairs . Another poem , called The Stewart , is said to have been written by Barbour ; but it has been lost . Two pensions , one of £ 10 Scots , the other of 20 shillings , were granted to the poet , both pro- LYDGATE , THE ...
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... Scottish poem . Barbour is thought to have died in 1395 . ८ ANDREW WYNTOUN . - This priest , supposed to have been born about 1350 , was Prior of St. Serf's at Lochleven , a house under the rule of the great Priory of St. Andrews . In ...
... Scottish poem . Barbour is thought to have died in 1395 . ८ ANDREW WYNTOUN . - This priest , supposed to have been born about 1350 , was Prior of St. Serf's at Lochleven , a house under the rule of the great Priory of St. Andrews . In ...
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... Scottish translator of Virgil . Wherever the gem was found , Surrey has given it to English literature ; a rough gem , indeed , at first , and shining with a dim , uncertain gleam , but soon , beneath Shakspere's magic hand , leaping ...
... Scottish translator of Virgil . Wherever the gem was found , Surrey has given it to English literature ; a rough gem , indeed , at first , and shining with a dim , uncertain gleam , but soon , beneath Shakspere's magic hand , leaping ...
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