Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language. By G. Ellis, Band 11801 |
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... contemporary Bard . SAXON ORIGINAL . Her Æthelstan cyning , 1 Eorla drihten , * Beorna beah ' gifa , 2 And his brothor eac , * The asterisks shew the alliterations . Ballice is boldly , Mar. xv . 43 , in the Rushworth Gloss . and bealh ...
... contemporary Bard . SAXON ORIGINAL . Her Æthelstan cyning , 1 Eorla drihten , * Beorna beah ' gifa , 2 And his brothor eac , * The asterisks shew the alliterations . Ballice is boldly , Mar. xv . 43 , in the Rushworth Gloss . and bealh ...
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... contemporary with Wace . ` M. de la Rue supposes him to be the Benoit de St. More , who wrote the History of the Wars of Troy , a * Wace's second work is a History of the two Irruptions of the Normans into Neustria and England . Like ...
... contemporary with Wace . ` M. de la Rue supposes him to be the Benoit de St. More , who wrote the History of the Wars of Troy , a * Wace's second work is a History of the two Irruptions of the Normans into Neustria and England . Like ...
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... contemporary manners which he has preserved , and which are not to be found in any other author . In descriptive poetry he seems to have possessed considerable merit ; and , supposing him the author of the Song on the advantages of the ...
... contemporary manners which he has preserved , and which are not to be found in any other author . In descriptive poetry he seems to have possessed considerable merit ; and , supposing him the author of the Song on the advantages of the ...
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... contemporary writers , to the philosophical abridgments of the moderns ; and a great part of his obscurity will be found to result from that unnecessary mixture of the Ger- man or black letter with the Saxon characters , in which Mr ...
... contemporary writers , to the philosophical abridgments of the moderns ; and a great part of his obscurity will be found to result from that unnecessary mixture of the Ger- man or black letter with the Saxon characters , in which Mr ...
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... contemporary with his translator . Robert de Brunne has furnished his biographers with the only particulars that are known concern- ing his life . In the prologue to his first work he says , that he had lived fifteen years at Brunne ...
... contemporary with his translator . Robert de Brunne has furnished his biographers with the only particulars that are known concern- ing his life . In the prologue to his first work he says , that he had lived fifteen years at Brunne ...
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ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon appears Beorn called castle century Chaucer Chronicle composed compositions contemporary curious dames Dares Phrygius Dictys Cretensis Dona Dukes of Normandy earl Edward III England English poetry extract fabliau fair Florent France French Geoffrey of Monmouth glossary gold Gothic Gower hafde hath Henry II heore hirede king knight ladies land language Latin Layamon learned Lord Lydgate Macbeth means meat metrical minstrels monk n'is never noble Norman observed original perhaps poem poet poetical preserved probably purpose reader reign of Edward Reign of Henry rhyme rich Robert de Brunne Robert of Gloucester Romance Saxon says Scotish Scotland seems song specimens Stephen Hawes style Summe heo supposed syllables talents thee thou thought tion transcriber translated Tyrwhitt unto verse versification Wace Warton weoren women word writers written Wyntown
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Seite 213 - HAvE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 301 - And sing with us, away ! winter away ! " Come summer, come ! the sweet season and sun ! " Awake, for shame ! that have your heavens won ! " And amorously lift up your headis all ; " Thank love, that list you to his mercy call I
Seite 320 - Now have we many chimneys ; and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good-man and his family from the quack or pose, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted.
Seite 322 - ... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town...
Seite 275 - I am of opinion, that Lydgate made considerable additions to those amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way : and that he is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader.
Seite 40 - IT WAS FROM ENGLAND AND NORMANDY THAT THE FRENCH RECEIVED THE FIRST WORKS WHICH DESERVE TO BE CITED IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
Seite 323 - As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides.
Seite 105 - Thomas, &c. It appears, from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr Douce, of London, containing a French metrical romance of Sir Tristrem, that the work of our Thomas the Rhymer was known, and referred to, by the minstrels of Normandy and Bretagne.
Seite 327 - I saw where hung my own6 hood, That I had lost among the throng : To buy my own hood I thought it wrong; I knew it as well as I did my creed; But, for lack of money, I could not speed. The Taverner took me by the sleeve; "Sir," saith he,
Seite 316 - Ploughman, have highly extolled this useful body of men, while the French minstrels of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries universally seem to approve the supercilious contempt with which the nobles affected to treat them.