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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... evidence , that this work must have been written as early as the year 1146. It is in verses of eight syllables , which possess uncommon facility and elegance . The only known copy is in the British Mus . Bibl . Reg . 13. A. xxi . in ...
... evidence , that this work must have been written as early as the year 1146. It is in verses of eight syllables , which possess uncommon facility and elegance . The only known copy is in the British Mus . Bibl . Reg . 13. A. xxi . in ...
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... evidence , arising from a comparison of the many pieces ascribed to the middle of the thirteenth century , it may be presumed , from the facility of rhyming evinced in many of them , and even in the very dull history of Robert of ...
... evidence , arising from a comparison of the many pieces ascribed to the middle of the thirteenth century , it may be presumed , from the facility of rhyming evinced in many of them , and even in the very dull history of Robert of ...
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... evidence of its operation . But in the first instance , the Norman garrisons , and such colonies of their countrymen as may have been settled under their protection , were effectually sepa- rated from the native inhabitants , by ...
... evidence of its operation . But in the first instance , the Norman garrisons , and such colonies of their countrymen as may have been settled under their protection , were effectually sepa- rated from the native inhabitants , by ...
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... evidence , the dates of seve- ral love - songs , devotional and moral poems , and other smaller pieces contained in the same miscel- lany . He was perhaps mistaken in referring some of these to so early a period as the year 1200 ; but ...
... evidence , the dates of seve- ral love - songs , devotional and moral poems , and other smaller pieces contained in the same miscel- lany . He was perhaps mistaken in referring some of these to so early a period as the year 1200 ; but ...
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... evidence , we should be disposed to place the period of their greatest celebrity , a little before the middle of the fifteenth century ; because at that time our lan- guage had been successively improved by the writ- ings of Gower ...
... evidence , we should be disposed to place the period of their greatest celebrity , a little before the middle of the fifteenth century ; because at that time our lan- guage had been successively improved by the writ- ings of Gower ...
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Seite 314 - 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 229 - Freedom the zest to pleasure gives— He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want, are all Summ'd up within the name of thrall.
Seite 11 - In English, and in writing of our tongue, " So pray I to God that none mis-write thee...
Seite 269 - Occleve led the way : and that he is the " first of our writers whose style is clothed with " that perspicuity in which the English phraseology " appears at this day, to an English reader.
Seite 42 - IT WAS FROM ENGLAND AND NORMANDY THAT THE FRENCH RECEIVED THE FIRST WORKS WHICH DESERVE TO BE CITED IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
Seite 316 - ... 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 321 - 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 207 - I 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 a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 344 - Bruce," says an elegant critic, " is evidently the work of a politician as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always employed with judgment ; so that every event is prepared and rendered probable by the means to which it is attributed ; whereas the life of Wallace is a mere romance, in which the hero hews down whole squadrons with his single arm, and is indebted for every victory to his own...
Seite 224 - When Alexander our king was dead, That Scotland led in love and lee, ' Away was sons * of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, ofgamyn and glee : Our gold was changed into lead.