| Joseph Haslewood - 1811 - 326 pages
...of the causes alledged, would peraduenture reproue and disgrace euery Romance, or short historicall ditty for that they be not written in long meeters or verses Alexandria, according to the nature & stile of large histories, wherin they should do wrong for they... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1812 - 518 pages
...the causes alledged, would peradventure reprove ** and disgrace every Romance, or short historicall ditty, " for that they be not written in long meeters or verses " Alexandrins," which constituted the prevailing versification among the poets of that age, and which... | |
| English poetry - 1858 - 396 pages
...of the causes alledged, would peradventure reprove and disgrace every Romance, or short historicall ditty for that they be not written in long meeters or verses Alexandrins,' which constituted the prevailing versification among the poets of that age, and which... | |
| English poetry - 1876 - 552 pages
...that his poem was written in short metre, &c., to be sung to the harp in such places of assembly) " and consideration of the causes alleged, would peradventure...that they be not written in long meeters or verses Alexandrins," which constituted the prevailing versification among the poets of that age, and which... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1876 - 630 pages
...4c., to be sung to the harp in such places of assembly,) " and consideration of the causes alledgcd, would peradventure reprove and disgrace every romance,...that they be not written in long meeters or verses Alexandrins," which constituted the prevailing versification among the poets of that ago, and which... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1876 - 528 pages
...that his poem was written in short metre, &c., to be sung to the harp in such places of assembly) " and consideration of the causes alleged, would peradventure...Romance, or short historical ditty, for that they bo not written in long meeters or ver.-es Alexandrine," which constituted the prevailing versification... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1876 - 548 pages
...the harp in such places of assembly) " and consideration of the causes alleged, would pcradventure reprove and disgrace every Romance, or short historical ditty, for that they bo not written in long meeters or verses Alexandrins," which constituted the prevailing versification... | |
| English poetry - 1880 - 486 pages
...the causes alledged, would peradventure reprove and disgrace every ' romance, or short historicall ditty, for that they be not written in long meeters or verses Alexandrins, " which constituted the prevailing versification among the Poets of that age, and which... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1893 - 628 pages
...the causes 20 "alledged, would peradventure reprove and disgrace every "Romance, or short historicall ditty for that they be not "written in long meeters or verses Alexandrins,'' which constituted the prevailing versification among the poets of that age, and which... | |
| George Gregory Smith - 1904 - 522 pages
...of the causes alledged, 5 would peraduenture reproue and disgrace euery Romance or short historicall ditty for that they be not written in long meeters or verses Alexandrins, according to the nature and stile of large histories ; wherin they should do wrong, for... | |
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