 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 sayfa
...which is prefixed to a collection of ballads lately published by Dodsley, in three volumes.* I propose to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures...of my great master, are by no means inconsistent, ¡ts is evident from his works. My hero is to be born in the south of Scotland, which you know was... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 456 sayfa
...which is prefixed to a collection of ballads lately published by Dodsley in three volumes. * I propose to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures...pathos, which, in the opinion of my great master, artf by no means inconsistent, as is evident from his works. My hero is to be born in the south of... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 sayfa
...composition." Again, in another letter, " I propose to give an account of the birth, edi "•}tion, and adventures of one of those bards ; in which I...description, sentiment, satire, and even a certain species oí' humour and of pathos, which, in the opinion of my great master, are by no means incousisli 2 POETRY.... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 458 sayfa
...collection of ballads lately published by Dodsley.in three, volumes.* 1 propose to give. an account pf the birth, education, and adventures of one of those...is to be born in the south of Scotland, which you |yipw was the native .land, of the English Minstrels; I mean of those Minstrels, who travelled into... | |
 | James Beattie - 1831 - 330 sayfa
...which is prefixed to a collection of ballads lately published by Dodsley in three volumes. I propose to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures...sentiment, satire, and even a certain species of humour and * I have been told that the poem consisted originally of only four stanzas, and that the two beautiful... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 sayfa
...which is prefixed to a collection of ballads lately published by Dodnley in three volume«, i jiro pose to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures of one of those bard»; in which I shall have full scope for description, sentiment, satire, and even a certain s|>e<:ies... | |
 | James McCosh - 1875 - 506 sayfa
...poetry. So early as 1766, he is laboring in the style and stanza of Spencer, at a poem in which he is to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures of one of the old minstrels. The First Book of the " Minstrel" was published anonymously in 1771, and a new edition... | |
 | William Walker - 1887 - 726 sayfa
...Percy's " Rcliques ", is tlius given by himself in a letter to his friend Dr. Blacklock : — " I propose to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures of one of those bards. My hero is to be born in the south of Scotland ; which you know was the native land of the English... | |
 | Walter Jenkinson Kaye - 1891 - 350 sayfa
...early as 1766 he is labouring, in the style and stanza of Spenser, at a poem, in which he proposes to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures of one of the old minstrels. The first book of the "Minstrel" was published anonymously in 1771, and the second... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 sayfa
...which is prefixed to a collection of ballade lately published by Dodsley in three volumes, i propose to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures...satire, and even a certain species of humour and of |*thos. which, in the opinion of my great master, are by no means inconsistent, as is evident from... | |
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The subject was suggested by a dissertation on the old minstrels, which is prefixed to a collection of ballads lately published by Dodsley, in three volumes. I proposed to give an account of the birth, education, and adventures of one of those bards ;... 
