Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 |
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Strona 90
... , and relmes , Of Jeffe his fede the fwete Sunamite * , Mefure my mourning mine own Margarite ! Perhaps Cinnamite or Cinnamomite . 98 105 112 119 O foverainift yfought out of Syon ! Cockle with gold 90 CERTAINE BALADES , I.
... , and relmes , Of Jeffe his fede the fwete Sunamite * , Mefure my mourning mine own Margarite ! Perhaps Cinnamite or Cinnamomite . 98 105 112 119 O foverainift yfought out of Syon ! Cockle with gold 90 CERTAINE BALADES , I.
Strona 10
... perhaps be allowed to infer that this poem was written before Chaucer had met with The Thefeida . - It is extant in mil . Harl . 372 , and Bodl . Fairf . 16 . VI.The Affemblee of Foules is mentioned by Chaucer himfelf in L. W. 419 ...
... perhaps be allowed to infer that this poem was written before Chaucer had met with The Thefeida . - It is extant in mil . Harl . 372 , and Bodl . Fairf . 16 . VI.The Affemblee of Foules is mentioned by Chaucer himfelf in L. W. 419 ...
Strona 18
... perhaps till the reign of Henry V. is fufficiently clear from this poem . - Shakespeare feems to have followedthe jeft - book in confidering Scoganas a mere buffoon , when he mentions as one of Falstaff's boyish exploits that he broke ...
... perhaps till the reign of Henry V. is fufficiently clear from this poem . - Shakespeare feems to have followedthe jeft - book in confidering Scoganas a mere buffoon , when he mentions as one of Falstaff's boyish exploits that he broke ...
Strona 19
... perhaps add an 11th , viz . Ba- lade in commendation of our Ladie , as a poem with the fame beginning is afcribed to Lydgate under the title of Invocation to our Lady . Tanner , in v . Lydgate . The anonymous compofitions which have ...
... perhaps add an 11th , viz . Ba- lade in commendation of our Ladie , as a poem with the fame beginning is afcribed to Lydgate under the title of Invocation to our Lady . Tanner , in v . Lydgate . The anonymous compofitions which have ...
Strona 20
... perhaps by Chaucer , [ fol . 224 , ed . Sp . ] beginn . Alone walking , in thought plaining , Sc . which comes nearer to the description of a virelay than any thing else of his that has been preserved . See the book quoted in the Gloff ...
... perhaps by Chaucer , [ fol . 224 , ed . Sp . ] beginn . Alone walking , in thought plaining , Sc . which comes nearer to the description of a virelay than any thing else of his that has been preserved . See the book quoted in the Gloff ...
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Strona 194 - The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Strona 193 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine...
Strona 194 - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only.
Strona 193 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Strona 193 - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace...
Strona 188 - And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the vertuous Ring and Glass, And of the wondrous Hors of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride...
Strona 188 - The Truth is, it has been hitherto a little too carelessly handled, and, I think, has had less labor spent about its 1 5 polishing then it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be willing to read twice but some of his Poetry, But then it began to raise it self a little, and to sound tolerably well.
Strona 192 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Strona 17 - Saxon original, is an abbreviation of AF, or OF; of AT ; of ON, or IN; and often only a corruption of the prepositive particle GE, or Y.
Strona 177 - God then to blind the eyes of them, " for the more commodity of his people, to the intent " that through the reading of his treatises, some fruit " might redound thereof to his church, as no doubt it " did to many. As also I am partly informed of cer...