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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Memoirs of Jonathan Swift
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Category : Novelists, English
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: Walter ScottThe Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: Walter ScottPublisher: Palala Press
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelists
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: Walter ScottPublisher: General Books
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ARTICLE III. GODWIN S LIFE OF CHAUCER. Froni the Edinburgh Review for 1801- On tlie Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English Poet; including Memoirs of his near Friend and Kinsman, John OF Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; with Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts, and Literature of England in tlie I4: lh century. By William Godwin. 2vols.4to. London, 1803.] The perusal of this title excited no small surprise in our critical fraternity. The authenticated passages of Chaucer's life may be comprised in half a dozen pages; and behold two voluminous quartos The more sanguine of our number anticipated the recovery of the Boke of the Lioun, and the other long lost labours of Adam Scrivenere, the bard's amanuensis; the more cautious predicted a new edition of the Chest of Rowley, and the Shakspeare cabinet of Ireland. Our expectations were yet farther heightened, by the lofty tone in which Mr Godwin contrasts his own labours and discoveries with those of the former biographers of Chaucer. Tyrwhitt, the learned and indefatigable editor of the Canterbury Tales, had professed him- self unable to produce more than a short abstract of the historical passages of the poet's life; and Ellis, the elegant historian of our early poetry, has (to use his own words) followed Tyrwhitt, in reciting1 a few genuine anecdotes, instead of attempting to work them into a connected narrative, in which much must have been supplied by mere conjecture, or by a forced interpretation of the allusions scattered through the works of the poet. But Mr Godwin censures this resolution, as having been adopted to save the fatigue of minute research after the documents from which a full and formal life of Chaucer might have been compiled. The fact is, however, that Tyrwhitt made no exertions as to the...
Author: Walter Scott