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tl ^^ parliest ages to the p ^ s ^ tiK '• ' jts&h TMvfce of SetUs iS ^ Bivided int 6 three Books , to affo ¥ d so many pauses , or
restingplaces to the reader , aad to assist him in id&ttngttislimg between the j lfocliictions ' of the earlier , the t $ 4 § ttJe aiid t £ j ? JatAer tjjnes- To S&JHe fofc the rudeness of the more
© fcsoleie paejaas , each volume concludes with a few modern attempts iii the same kind of writing ; and to take off from the tediousness of tfie longer narf&tives , they 3 , re tfrety wherejntef mingled with little eleg&til pieces of the lyric kind . Select ballads in the old Scottish dialect , most of them of the
firstrate merit , are also interspersed ainong those of our ancient English Minstrels ; and the artless tt * o'dtictions 6 f these old rhapso-TOfe * are occasionally confronted with specimens of the compositf&h of Contemporary poets of a Higher Class ; of those who had
# lwl advantages 6 f learning in the times in which they lived , and who * V ¥ cfce fot fatne , and for posterity . Vet perhaps the palm will be fre-^ ticntly due to the old strolling < miti £¥ r h who composed their 'Ihkfrfes ? 8 be sttjlg tS their harps , * kl % ho Ibb'kedno farther than
for present applause a ^ nd present «« Siisteh ^; " ^ - ( Pref . pp % xtiL — ^ 'Efl it . 4 tb . ) ^ ^ - l ^ efec ^ a « to ^ rtie fiffet Voltime . $ * ^ E&ti $ on the Atiticn t MMm r * U iii England deducing UBeir Wbpeski ^ riTi oW « thfe Bar < i £ M > 6 *® &a $ r tiiiffcrteni " names ' , were ^ d-
* fcii ^ ed and re ?( tf * d * ftSm th ^ Mf-Hi ^ t ^ g ^ ^ morigthe people of Gaul , - Mtiffln , fi ^ and ^ aWth ^ Nortli ; fiYS
^ ffld ifkd&tA b ^ ^ lm ^ t ^ li the t % b ^ fta ^«^ EttMtf ^—Thfei ^ ikill * % i ^ oiMfe rMr ^ ^ otti ^ ii n ^ cfu * iMJ tl&tf ^ eftbtis wf fei ^ elWd
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r ¦ • • - ~ - " ? " * * "j * - ~ f ^ LJ 'i "* " i ¦ ' ' ' ' j ' watered JT , their Vtt ^ Rfnw » ? f * hfi % JiCited b y Kings , aQd tj ^ ey W 3 ^ r ^ L every where loa < JecT with hpnp ^ i ^ and rewards , ' * ( P * xxii . ) it , Hi& tjien shewn how ' * the ppffrW * & } $$ MttislHl early WitK ^ " r ^ ifftPJf # - > a «^ -v » -v ^>«•*¦• > v •¦» o 'xJ *»«*«»» t ittno n ¦ 1 I tVim f / l / l
by men ojFie ^ ters incliscrj n ^ i ^^}^ , ; and mahj of the -mo § t po ^ jilftr rbimes were comp ^ s ^ amicJ ^ t j tJb ^ l ^ isurf and retire ment s pjCj mo » a ^ teries . But the M % || i ^ s ? K ^ ai tinued a distinct order pi ^ me ^ fpi :
many ages after the Norm ^ n ^ an .,. qaest ; and got theirJiv ^ iyxpo ^ oy singing verses to the h ^ jrp at th ^ houses of the great / ' ( p . x ^ iu ^ ) The second part of this Es&om . U employed 6 t to collect ^ frpm ^ history , such particular irj ^ c i 4 ^ ijt ^ f | S
occur on this subject— ^^^ j fe authors who lived too ^ ne ^ r ^^^^ Saxon times , and hii ^ bp / p ^ ^ e ^ j too many monumeot ^ o ^ pe A n , g i ^ Sax on nation ^ not to tiip ^ , \ v ^^ was conformably to . 0 ^ 4 \ ll ^ jW *? and manners of tHat p ^ ppl ^ ' {^^ thus proving " wleart r ,-ih f t ^^
ence of the customs and , haLi 4 ^ they attribute to t ^ if : j ^ re j ^ thfenj beKre the conq . uesgitl " ,, \ In , tbv > coriejgtipn , ^ /^ rf ^ ad ^ i ^ re , ^ the Danish camp is not fprgp $£ gfl 5
a iis / airl > argued-th ft ^ if the 5 $ axops . , bad not been ac ^ c i ^ - to meet toi * &ve minstrels of their j ^ W' ,, flW - assuoimg so g ^ y # ! « pf ^> n ^ y , i , a character , wojjjj ^ have excitea ^ suspid ^ gn ^ ? tHiO /} g ^ . W . 7 % W ^^ # ^' Iha ^ ** uie ixJins . Vrel ] jvas a , jg-W S ^ . ' W ? ' 8 l - ! M fc . w , ^ ^ r oI ^ ^§ 1 ? -W ^>» flgSc : for m Dfjoi | % aey ^> b ^^ c »^^ # r j $% th § wjre ^ ^ ¦*«¦ - . ^ 1 ^ 3 I ^ W ^ V ^^ S ? 1 ^ Tor nw mwnteqaflC * . tor $ p *~ n % .
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66 ^ JSttf ^ A ^ f & «»< & > i /^ k l ^ # , Me'SisfiiPdf timmate .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/2/
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