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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... fair to syht . At Brunenbruc in stour they faught ; Fiercer fray was never wraught . Maille was split , and helmis roven , The wall of shieldis down they cloven : The Thanis which cold with Edmond fare To meet the fomen well were yare ...
... fair to syht . At Brunenbruc in stour they faught ; Fiercer fray was never wraught . Maille was split , and helmis roven , The wall of shieldis down they cloven : The Thanis which cold with Edmond fare To meet the fomen well were yare ...
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... fair specimen of Layamon's phraseology . And as it does not contain any word which we are under the necessity of referring to a French origin , we cannot but consider it as simple and unmixed , though very barbarous Saxon . At the same ...
... fair specimen of Layamon's phraseology . And as it does not contain any word which we are under the necessity of referring to a French origin , we cannot but consider it as simple and unmixed , though very barbarous Saxon . At the same ...
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... fair abbéy , Of white monkés , and of grey , There beth bowers , and halls : All of pasties beth the walls , Of flesh , of fish , and a rich meat , The likefullest that man may eat . Flouren - cakes beth the shingles3 all Of church ...
... fair abbéy , Of white monkés , and of grey , There beth bowers , and halls : All of pasties beth the walls , Of flesh , of fish , and a rich meat , The likefullest that man may eat . Flouren - cakes beth the shingles3 all Of church ...
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... fair and light , Broad and long of seemly sight . The pillars of that cloister , all Beth y - turned of chrystál ; With harlas , and capital Of green jaspe , and red corál . In the praer 4 is a tree , Swithe lekeful for to see . The ...
... fair and light , Broad and long of seemly sight . The pillars of that cloister , all Beth y - turned of chrystál ; With harlas , and capital Of green jaspe , and red corál . In the praer 4 is a tree , Swithe lekeful for to see . The ...
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... fair procession . Another abbey is thereby , Forsooth a great fair nunnery : Up a river of sweet milk , Where is plenty great of silk . When the summer's day is hot , The young nuns take a boat , And doth them forth in that rivér , Both ...
... fair procession . Another abbey is thereby , Forsooth a great fair nunnery : Up a river of sweet milk , Where is plenty great of silk . When the summer's day is hot , The young nuns take a boat , And doth them forth in that rivér , Both ...
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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.