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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English poets George Ellis. 800 S. 333 Line . Mus . Bibl Cimport dufl . Bodl . see opp page ) 600082693Y with prote- indry gonti ? OF THE Early English Poets.
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... line 6 , for adopted , read adapted . 12 , for lekeful , read likeful . 88 , - note , 1. 7 , for cyprus , read cyperus . 89 , line 11 , for pirnent , read piment . 158 , note , 1. 1 , for Anstey , read Crowley . 163 , line 10 , for ...
... line 6 , for adopted , read adapted . 12 , for lekeful , read likeful . 88 , - note , 1. 7 , for cyprus , read cyperus . 89 , line 11 , for pirnent , read piment . 158 , note , 1. 1 , for Anstey , read Crowley . 163 , line 10 , for ...
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... line of ancestors . 5 The marches of Wales and the North of England eluci- date this term to an English reader , but it is derived from the Gothic MARKOS , Mat . ix . 34 , where mar is the corres . ponding Saxon , and signifies marks ...
... line of ancestors . 5 The marches of Wales and the North of England eluci- date this term to an English reader , but it is derived from the Gothic MARKOS , Mat . ix . 34 , where mar is the corres . ponding Saxon , and signifies marks ...
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... line rhyme with another , but one half with another half , as , " Al busuin est truved , l'ami é epruved , " Unches ne fud ami , qui al busuign failli , " & c . But this mechanism of verse , which he borrowed from the Latin versifiers ...
... line rhyme with another , but one half with another half , as , " Al busuin est truved , l'ami é epruved , " Unches ne fud ami , qui al busuign failli , " & c . But this mechanism of verse , which he borrowed from the Latin versifiers ...
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... line stands thus , “ A la mine u al greignor . " Both readings seem to indicate two games played with tables , and distinguished as the greater and the less ; but whether they were species of back- gammon or draughts , is uncertain ...
... line stands thus , “ A la mine u al greignor . " Both readings seem to indicate two games played with tables , and distinguished as the greater and the less ; but whether they were species of back- gammon or draughts , is uncertain ...
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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.