English and Scotch Historical BalladsArthur Milman |
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... side - lights on the life of a bygone age . However rude and artistically incomplete they may be , as illustrations of national manners , as the result of genuine feeling , as expressions of a common popular sentiment , they are for ...
... side - lights on the life of a bygone age . However rude and artistically incomplete they may be , as illustrations of national manners , as the result of genuine feeling , as expressions of a common popular sentiment , they are for ...
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... side of the border melts into one , and it is only from the prevailing party tone that we can make out on which side of the Tweed any particular poem was written . Most of them , too , were founded upon actual occurrences , and were ...
... side of the border melts into one , and it is only from the prevailing party tone that we can make out on which side of the Tweed any particular poem was written . Most of them , too , were founded upon actual occurrences , and were ...
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... side of those of which the topics are mostly political and war- like , there has been ever a concurrent series dealing with romantic subjects , or with incidents of a gentler , more purely domestic nature . Thus , side by side with the ...
... side of those of which the topics are mostly political and war- like , there has been ever a concurrent series dealing with romantic subjects , or with incidents of a gentler , more purely domestic nature . Thus , side by side with the ...
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Arthur Milman. wonder . Side by side , too , with the fierce theological and political war - cries of later generations , there were songs in which the softer emotions of love and the sweet simplicity of rural life are depicted with ...
Arthur Milman. wonder . Side by side , too , with the fierce theological and political war - cries of later generations , there were songs in which the softer emotions of love and the sweet simplicity of rural life are depicted with ...
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... side by side on something like equal terms . A British population existed in the time of King Alfred , and the aristocratic constitution of the West Saxons in the tenth century still testifies to the presence of an inferior nation ...
... side by side on something like equal terms . A British population existed in the time of King Alfred , and the aristocratic constitution of the West Saxons in the tenth century still testifies to the presence of an inferior nation ...
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