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... spirit not of the Ionian rhapsodist , but of the Provençal minstrel . It is written in the rhymed ten - syllabled couplet , which Chaucer has used in the greater part of his works . In the midst of a thousand anachronisms , of a ...
... spirit not of the Ionian rhapsodist , but of the Provençal minstrel . It is written in the rhymed ten - syllabled couplet , which Chaucer has used in the greater part of his works . In the midst of a thousand anachronisms , of a ...
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... spirit of the Romanz poetry — that it is by an allusion to the Squire's Tale that he characterizes Chaucer when enumerating the great men of all ages , and when he places him beside Plato , Shakspeare , Æschylus , and his beloved ...
... spirit of the Romanz poetry — that it is by an allusion to the Squire's Tale that he characterizes Chaucer when enumerating the great men of all ages , and when he places him beside Plato , Shakspeare , Æschylus , and his beloved ...
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... spirit and political enmity . The intellect of England had lately been engaged in a struggle for its liberty and its religion ; it had had time to repose , but not to be enfee- bled : it now started on its race of immortality , glowing ...
... spirit and political enmity . The intellect of England had lately been engaged in a struggle for its liberty and its religion ; it had had time to repose , but not to be enfee- bled : it now started on its race of immortality , glowing ...
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... spirit of the Refor mation , also an inquiring , active , practical , and fervent spirit - was necessary to complete the union of these discordant ingredients . Chivalry , indeed , as a political or social system , had ceased to exist ...
... spirit of the Refor mation , also an inquiring , active , practical , and fervent spirit - was necessary to complete the union of these discordant ingredients . Chivalry , indeed , as a political or social system , had ceased to exist ...
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... spirit yet glowed with no decaying fervour in the hearts of such men as Essex , Raleigh , Sidney ; and found a worthy voice in the sweet dignity of Spenser's song . Though the joust and tournament had degenerated from their ancient ...
... spirit yet glowed with no decaying fervour in the hearts of such men as Essex , Raleigh , Sidney ; and found a worthy voice in the sweet dignity of Spenser's song . Though the joust and tournament had degenerated from their ancient ...
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