Such were these "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," which Selden collected, Pepys preserved, and Percy published.
And that Fancy is but the Reliques of the same Motion, remaining after Sense, has been already sayd in the first and second Chapters.
Thirdly, by mixing with the Scripture divers reliques of the Religion, and much of the vain and erroneous Philosophy of the Greeks, especially of Aristotle.
We had our holy water, 125 And holy bread likewise, And many holy reliques We zaw before our eyes.
In 1765 he published, in three volumes, his famous Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
May his genuine reliques (if aught of him remains unmingled with common earth) continue to elude research, at least while the present overseers of the poor of Cripplegate are in office.
To two works the doctor was impartially devoted, the "Noetes Ambrosianæ" and "The Reliques of Father Prout.
He prescribed them to both of us, and Field took to his bed with the Reliques and did not get up until he had "comprehended" the greater part of its five hundred and odd pages of perennial literary stimulant.
We travelled many hours through a tract, black and barren, in which, however, there were the reliques of humanity; for we found a ruined chapel in our way.
These reliques of veneration always produce some mournful pleasure.
For all the reliques that he hadde gotte before were but tryfles to so holy mylke.
So moche more as thay persayue youre deuocyõ, so moche larger reliques wyl thay shew to you.
It first appeared, however, in Percy's Reliques of English Poetry.
First printed in Erik Pontoppidan's little book on the reliques of Paganism and Papistry among the Danish People, 1736, p.
The eloquent hypochondriasm of the concluding paragraph of this letter, called forth the commendation of Lord Jeffrey, when he criticised Cromek's Reliques of Burns, in the Edinburgh Review.
The ballad on Queen Mary was begun while I was busy with Percy's Reliques of English Poetry.
Ye scattered birds that faintly sing, The reliques of the vernal quire!
In a polished age, like the present, I am sensible that many of these reliques of antiquity will require great allowances to be made for them.
No active or comprehensive mind can forbear some attention to thereliques of antiquity.
In 1789 a collection of Irish Ossianic poems was published by Miss Brooke, termed Reliques of Irish Poetry.
He was paraded through the Garden, shown all the reliques of Saints and Martyrs, and treated with as much respect and distinction as had He been the Pope himself.
Next came the reliques of St. Clare, inclosed in vases equally precious for their materials and workmanship: But they attracted not Lorenzo's attention.
The sanctuaries of Rome are very precious, especially the Holy Reliques and the graves of the Martyrs, and I love them very much.
At the same time he became known to Bishop Percy, the collector of the Reliques of Ancient Poetry, and he had written The Bee, a collection of essays, and was employed upon various periodicals.
Reliques of Ancient Poetry, which did much to bring back interest in the ancient native literature, and to usher in the revival of romanticism.
Antioch followed the example of Egypt, in dispersing the reliques of the forty Martyrs: and the examples of Egypt and Syria were soon followed by the rest of the world.
The reliques of the forty Martyrs at Antioch were distributed among the Churches before the year 373; for Athanasius who died in that year, wrote an Oration upon them.
For to touch thereliques themselves, if any such prosperous fortune shall at any time happen; how great a favour that is, and not to be obtained without the most earnest prayers, they know well who have obtained it.
Bishop Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," 1765, had created a taste for the traditional poetry of humble folk.
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