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... Italy that gave a tone to the conception of Geoffrey Chaucer , the father of the English muse , the earliest of our national poets , who wove our newly formed language into the measures of verse , and rejecting the extravagances of the ...
... Italy that gave a tone to the conception of Geoffrey Chaucer , the father of the English muse , the earliest of our national poets , who wove our newly formed language into the measures of verse , and rejecting the extravagances of the ...
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... Italy , sometimes in a public character . In Italy he was introduced to Petrarch , at the marriage of Violante , daughter of Galeazzo , Duke of Milan , with the Duke of Clarence ; and it is supposed that he was also personally ...
... Italy , sometimes in a public character . In Italy he was introduced to Petrarch , at the marriage of Violante , daughter of Galeazzo , Duke of Milan , with the Duke of Clarence ; and it is supposed that he was also personally ...
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... Italian poets had filled Europe , the Provencial romances were still popular , the spirit of chivalry was at its height , the English and Continental courts were remarkable for their splendor and gallantry , and there was everything ...
... Italian poets had filled Europe , the Provencial romances were still popular , the spirit of chivalry was at its height , the English and Continental courts were remarkable for their splendor and gallantry , and there was everything ...
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... Italian writers , but Surrey had the better discrimi- nation and finer vein of poetry . He was the first English composer of sustained blank verse , and this , in a translation of the Æneid of Virgil , he has employed with a force and ...
... Italian writers , but Surrey had the better discrimi- nation and finer vein of poetry . He was the first English composer of sustained blank verse , and this , in a translation of the Æneid of Virgil , he has employed with a force and ...
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... Italians had wrought to its highest polish . To his absent mistress he sings , From you have I been absent in the spring , When proud - pied April , dress'd in all his trim , Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing ; That heavy Saturn ...
... Italians had wrought to its highest polish . To his absent mistress he sings , From you have I been absent in the spring , When proud - pied April , dress'd in all his trim , Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing ; That heavy Saturn ...
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