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Literary Memoir of Dr . Percy , late Bishop of JO rumor e * ( Concluded from p . 8 . ); The work to which we refer appeared in 1765 , and was so well received that a fourth edition was
published in I 7 & 4 which having been } ong scarce , a fifth is in the pf £ ss . It fe entitled , Reliquest of Ancient English Poetry ^ cdi ^ kgmjg of Old Heroit Ballads , Songs , and other Pieces if our earlier Poets f together with some few of a later date . 3 vols , 12 mo . From his
Vrefyce we subjoin Mr . Percy ' s account of the ori g in ^ design and arrangement of His Work , ^ nd of the encouragement under Which he first brought it before the public . * ' Tl > e reader is hei ^ e presented with select reift&ifta of our antient
English Bards and Minstrels , an * t < JU » V of cten ' w'h 6 were once greatly respected by our ancestors , tefi contributed to , soften thie * oiigj # fes $ ^ f a martial and un . lettered people , by their songs ? lid by xheit music- The greater p % rt of th ^ m are extracted from * n ancient Jdlio m&puscript ' , in fk&f ^* ^ * J ^ i ^» ibn , frfet&h con' ilS ^^^ ) 1 ^ ^^^ ^ ** * ^^ # t ^^ SWmiddte q ( the Wx $ » m cetUiiry ; but contaius
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compositions of all times and dates , from the ages prior to Chaucer ^ to the conclusion of the reign of Charles L This MS , was shewn to several learned and ingenious friends , who thought the content * too curious to be consigned to obli * vjon , and importuned tnepossess € > r to * , sele . ct some of them ah < $ gp $ k Them to the press , ^ s most of tjbeax are of great simplicity , and seem to have ,, been merely written for the people , he was long in doubt , whether in t ^ ie present state of
improved literature , they cquld be deemed worthy the attention of the public . At length the importunity of his friends prevailed , and he could refuse nothing to such judges as the author of the Rambler and the late Mr .
SAenstone . —Accordingly such specimens of ancient poetry have been selected , as either shew the gradation of our language , exhibit the progress of popular opinions ,
display the peculiar manners and customs of former ages or throw light ou our earlier classical poets * They are here distributfji into Vblymes * each k >{ which contains
au independent iSeries of poem ? arranged chiefly according to the ? order of tim « , and shewing tt * gradual improvements of thte E ©* glish' langua ^ and * poetry from
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No . LXX 1 V . FEBRUARY . [ Vol . VII .
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• * XMB M&WftnLY REPO ® ITOR 3 f * ¦ . ¦ . > ¦ - OF Theology and General Literature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/1/
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