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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... observations contained in the first volume , is perhaps superfluous ; but may be convenient for the purpose of reference . The title of these volumes will shew , that they are by no means intended to supersede Mr. Warton's very learned ...
... observations contained in the first volume , is perhaps superfluous ; but may be convenient for the purpose of reference . The title of these volumes will shew , that they are by no means intended to supersede Mr. Warton's very learned ...
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... observe that the greater part of his author's text , which required no explanation , was almost solely derived from ... observed , that the order in which the several kinds of words ( or parts of speech ) were invented , may fairly be ...
... observe that the greater part of his author's text , which required no explanation , was almost solely derived from ... observed , that the order in which the several kinds of words ( or parts of speech ) were invented , may fairly be ...
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... observation will soon teach them , that this simplicity is easily attainable by means of the prepositions and auxiliary verbs , which are capable of being substituted for all the varieties of the ancient declensions and conjuga- tions ...
... observation will soon teach them , that this simplicity is easily attainable by means of the prepositions and auxiliary verbs , which are capable of being substituted for all the varieties of the ancient declensions and conjuga- tions ...
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... observe , till the remark is forced upon us by some striking violation of the usual practice , it is certain that mere reasoning and ana- logy would prove very insufficient guides . When our neighbours , the Scotch , talk of going till ...
... observe , till the remark is forced upon us by some striking violation of the usual practice , it is certain that mere reasoning and ana- logy would prove very insufficient guides . When our neighbours , the Scotch , talk of going till ...
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... observed that , the many new sounds which , at the latter of these periods were introduced into the language , were by no means accompanied by a correspondent number of new and distinctive signs , because the French or Latin alphabet ...
... observed that , the many new sounds which , at the latter of these periods were introduced into the language , were by no means accompanied by a correspondent number of new and distinctive signs , because the French or Latin alphabet ...
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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.