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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... principal object ; which is , to exhibit , by means of a regular series of Specimens , the rise and progress of our language , from the tenth to the latter end of the seventeenth century . In the former part , which terminates with the ...
... principal object ; which is , to exhibit , by means of a regular series of Specimens , the rise and progress of our language , from the tenth to the latter end of the seventeenth century . In the former part , which terminates with the ...
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... pronounced , sounds as quitten . * To laugh to boast , availed not . + Ward - motes is still in constant use to express a meeting of the principal inhabitants of the ward . Eft yra land , Æwi scamode . Swylce tha gebrothor [ 27 ]
... pronounced , sounds as quitten . * To laugh to boast , availed not . + Ward - motes is still in constant use to express a meeting of the principal inhabitants of the ward . Eft yra land , Æwi scamode . Swylce tha gebrothor [ 27 ]
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... principal materials of the poet . His business is minute and particular description ; he must sieze on every thing that passes before his eyes ; and the dress , the customs , the occupations , the amuse- ments , as well as the arts and ...
... principal materials of the poet . His business is minute and particular description ; he must sieze on every thing that passes before his eyes ; and the dress , the customs , the occupations , the amuse- ments , as well as the arts and ...
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... principal table in the hall , being elevated above the common floor , was particularly called the Des . The canopy placed over such a table afterwards acquired the same name . Hence a good deal of dispute about the meaning of the word ...
... principal table in the hall , being elevated above the common floor , was particularly called the Des . The canopy placed over such a table afterwards acquired the same name . Hence a good deal of dispute about the meaning of the word ...
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... principal festivals . But as it is very difficult for the same person to attain equal ex- cellence in all the sister arts , the professions of the poet , the harper , and the reciter , were after- wards undertaken by several associates ...
... principal festivals . But as it is very difficult for the same person to attain equal ex- cellence in all the sister arts , the professions of the poet , the harper , and the reciter , were after- wards undertaken by several associates ...
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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.