I imagine Lamb to have found the metre and manner of the poem in the ballad "Gentle River, Gentle River" (translated from the Spanish "Rio Verde, Rio Verde"), which is printed in the Percy Reliques.

Meanwhile his wife and child with cruel hope All night the door at every moment ope; Haply that child in fearful doubt may gaze, 410 Passing his father's bones in future days, Start at the reliques of that very thigh, On which so oft he prattled when a boy.

Johnson, after stating that some of Milton's manuscripts prove that 'in the early part of his life he wrote with much care,' continues:'Such reliques show how excellence is acquired; what we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.' Works, vii.

There's a copy of the Percy 'Reliques' in the catalogue I should like to buy.

There is already a copy of the 'Reliques' in the library.

In the creed of ancient superstition he was a kind of merry sprite, whose character and achievements are recorded in a ballad printed in Dr Percy's "Reliques of Ancient Poetry."

Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads; Gummere's Old English Ballads (one volume); Hazlitt's Early Popular Poetry of England; Gayley and Flaherty's Poetry of the People; Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, in Everyman's Library.

To Percy, bishop of the Irish church, in Dromore, we are indebted for the first attempt at a systematic collection of the folk songs and ballads which are counted among the treasures of a nation's literature.[210] In 1765 he published, in three volumes, his famous Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

Percy's Reliques, in Everyman's Library, Chandos Classics, Bohn's Library, etc.

Reliques, edited by Wheatley (London, 1891); the same, in Everyman's Library, Chandos Classics, etc. Essay, by J.W. Hales, Revival of Ballad Poetry, in Folia Literaria.

In what respect did Percy's Reliques influence the romantic movement?

Percy's Reliques | 1766.

A longing gradually manifested itself for more freedom of imagination, such as we find in Ossian, The Castle of Otranto, Percy's Reliques, and translations of the Norse mythology.

In Percy's Reliques, read the first ballad, that of Chevy Chase, and explain how the age could turn from Pope to read such rude verse.

His The Bristowe Tragedy may be compared with Percy's Reliques and with Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner.

With his first few shillings he bought the collection of early ballads and songs known as Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

V.Alteratives and Cordials, corroborating, resolving the Reliques, and mending the Temperament.

J. B. TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST TWO STANZAS OF THE SONG "RIO VERDE, RIO VERDE," PRINTED IN BISHOP PERCY'S RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY.

He held in his hand a volume of Percy's Reliques, which he had just taken down from Thurnall's shelves; yet he was looking not at it, but at the landscape.

Percy, Reliques, ii. 9. ALDO, a Caledonian, was not invited by Fingal to his banquet on his return to Morven, after the overthrow of Swaran.

It will be found entire in Percy's Reliques.

But no large and important collection was put forth until Percy's Reliques (1765), a book which had a powerful influence upon Wordsworth and Walter Scott.

L'un d'eux avoit eu la tête coupée; on lui en a mis une d'un autre saint Au reste les Grecs ne portent point à ces reliques le même respect que nous.

on dît même que par deux fois ils ont, avec leurs galères, sauvé des Turcs la ville; pour moi je croy que Dieu l'a plus gardée pour les saintes reliques qui sont dedans que pour autre chose.

Notes were first added by Dr. Percy, the editor of the 'Reliques of Ancient Poetry', and Dr. Calder.