Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, Together with Some of Later Date, Volume 1G. Bell and Sons, 1905 |
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... seems to have been Lancashire . " 3 Who this copier may have been still remains a mystery . Percy's suggestion that it was Thomas Blount has been dismissed as incredible . Concerning the treatment of the text in Percy's selections , we ...
... seems to have been Lancashire . " 3 Who this copier may have been still remains a mystery . Percy's suggestion that it was Thomas Blount has been dismissed as incredible . Concerning the treatment of the text in Percy's selections , we ...
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... seem to have been merely written for the people , he was long in doubt whether , in the present state of improved literature , they could be deemed worthy the attention of the public . At length the importunity of his friends prevailed ...
... seem to have been merely written for the people , he was long in doubt whether , in the present state of improved literature , they could be deemed worthy the attention of the public . At length the importunity of his friends prevailed ...
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... seems ( for cheapness ' sake ) wholly laid aside for that of the white - letter without pictures . " In the Ashmole Library at Oxford is a small collection of ballads made by Anthony Wood in the year 1676 , containing somewhat more than ...
... seems ( for cheapness ' sake ) wholly laid aside for that of the white - letter without pictures . " In the Ashmole Library at Oxford is a small collection of ballads made by Anthony Wood in the year 1676 , containing somewhat more than ...
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... seem , from the errors and defects with which the MS . abounds , that he had employed his clerk in writing the transcripts , who was often weary of his task . obliging favours . To Sir David Dalrymple , Bart . PREFACE . XV.
... seem , from the errors and defects with which the MS . abounds , that he had employed his clerk in writing the transcripts , who was often weary of his task . obliging favours . To Sir David Dalrymple , Bart . PREFACE . XV.
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... seem to have been the genuine successors of the ancient Bards ( c ) , who , under different names , were admired and revered from the earliest ages among the people of Gaul , Britain , Ireland , and the North , and indeed by almost all ...
... seem to have been the genuine successors of the ancient Bards ( c ) , who , under different names , were admired and revered from the earliest ages among the people of Gaul , Britain , Ireland , and the North , and indeed by almost all ...
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