Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets; Together with Some Few of Later Date, Band 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1812 |
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... Minstrels , an order of men , who were once greatly respected by our ancestors , and contributed to soften the roughness of a martial and un- lettered people by their songs and by their music . The greater part of them are extracted ...
... Minstrels , an order of men , who were once greatly respected by our ancestors , and contributed to soften the roughness of a martial and un- lettered people by their songs and by their music . The greater part of them are extracted ...
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... Minstrels ; and the artless productions of these old rhapsodists are occasionally confronted with specimens of the composition of contemporary poets of a higher class ; of those who had all the advantages of learning in the times in ...
... Minstrels ; and the artless productions of these old rhapsodists are occasionally confronted with specimens of the composition of contemporary poets of a higher class ; of those who had all the advantages of learning in the times in ...
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... sentiments , or manners . Except in one Paragraph , and in the Notes sub- joined , this Preface is given with little variation from the first edition in MDCCLXV . . AN AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND . I. XX PREFAC E.
... sentiments , or manners . Except in one Paragraph , and in the Notes sub- joined , this Preface is given with little variation from the first edition in MDCCLXV . . AN AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND . I. XX PREFAC E.
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... MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND . I. THE MINSTRELS ( A ) were an order of men in the middle ages , who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music , and sang to the harp verses composed by them- selves , or others * . They also appear to have accom ...
... MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND . I. THE MINSTRELS ( A ) were an order of men in the middle ages , who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music , and sang to the harp verses composed by them- selves , or others * . They also appear to have accom ...
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... MINSTRELS seem to have been the genuine suc- cessors of the ancient BARDS ( C ) , who under different names were admired and revered , from the earliest ages , among the people of Gaul , Britain , Ireland , and the North ; and indeed by ...
... MINSTRELS seem to have been the genuine suc- cessors of the ancient BARDS ( C ) , who under different names were admired and revered , from the earliest ages , among the people of Gaul , Britain , Ireland , and the North ; and indeed by ...
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Seite cxvi - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Seite 239 - Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold.
Seite 341 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Seite 277 - And now with me my countrymen, Your courage forth advance ; For never was there champion yet, In Scotland or in France, That ever did on horseback come, But if my hap it were, I durst encounter man for man, With him to break a spear." Earl Douglas on his milk-white steed, Most like a baron bold, Rode foremost of his company, Whose armour shone like gold.
Seite 240 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Seite 313 - Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo, thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring.
Seite 350 - O SOLITUDE, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep, Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble waste survey ; You, recluse, again I woo, And again your steps pursue.
Seite 290 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Seite 258 - Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance, Age is full of care: Youth like summer morn, Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave, Age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, Age's breath is short, Youth is nimble, age is lame : Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Seite 289 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.