Select Early English Poems, المجلد 8H. Milford, 1921 |
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الصفحة 115
... sense of ' slender ' as applied to a woman , but rather the use of the word with special reference to the pearl , which is described as little and round , as though the epithet ' smal ' was expressive of the special characteristic of ...
... sense of ' slender ' as applied to a woman , but rather the use of the word with special reference to the pearl , which is described as little and round , as though the epithet ' smal ' was expressive of the special characteristic of ...
الصفحة 117
... sense of thick and fast , ' the idea being that of closeness . 19. sange : cp . -songe , 529 . 20. stylle stounde : literally , the still time , the silent hour . 21. fele I still hold that here we have a pregnant use of the word ...
... sense of thick and fast , ' the idea being that of closeness . 19. sange : cp . -songe , 529 . 20. stylle stounde : literally , the still time , the silent hour . 21. fele I still hold that here we have a pregnant use of the word ...
الصفحة 120
... sense of ' deaf - like ' ; cp . the use of ' deave ' in the sense of ' to stupefy ' ; cp . Latin surdus : The grief that dinned in his heart was deaf to reason . There is no need to change the text and read either ' de [ r ] nely ' or ...
... sense of ' deaf - like ' ; cp . the use of ' deave ' in the sense of ' to stupefy ' ; cp . Latin surdus : The grief that dinned in his heart was deaf to reason . There is no need to change the text and read either ' de [ r ] nely ' or ...
الصفحة 122
... sense of ' a lucky moment ' ( i . e . a bright sky , an auspicious time ) ; cp . Skeat , ' Wars of Alexander . ' 80. schynde : cp . schyned , ' Cleanness , ' 1532 ; similarly , rysed , ' Gawain , ' 1313 , ' Cleanness , ' 971 , etc. 81 ...
... sense of ' a lucky moment ' ( i . e . a bright sky , an auspicious time ) ; cp . Skeat , ' Wars of Alexander . ' 80. schynde : cp . schyned , ' Cleanness , ' 1532 ; similarly , rysed , ' Gawain , ' 1313 , ' Cleanness , ' 971 , etc. 81 ...
الصفحة 125
... sense of ' newly cut , so as to have a bright surface . ' It is hardly likely that we have here two distinct words . If they are from ' sceran , ' to cut , i.e. to cut into threads or some such necessary idea , the sense seems forced ...
... sense of ' newly cut , so as to have a bright surface . ' It is hardly likely that we have here two distinct words . If they are from ' sceran , ' to cut , i.e. to cut into threads or some such necessary idea , the sense seems forced ...
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الصفحة xxxvii - Gest Hystoriale,' ' Called Lucius Hiberius Emperoure, When King of Britain was Arthoure.' The chronicler excuses the poet, for the mistake was not originally his, and adds enthusiastically : ' men off gud dyscretyowne Suld excuse and love Huchowne, That cunnand was in literature. He made the gret Geste of Arthure And the Awntyre of Gawane, The Pystyll als off Swete Susane.
الصفحة 147 - Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise: In all His words most wonderful; Most sure in all His ways! O loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame, A second Adam to the fight And to the rescue came.
الصفحة xxi - Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
الصفحة 114 - She's gane to dwall in heaven, my lassie, She's gane to dwall in heaven : Ye're owre pure, quo...
الصفحة xlvii - O moral Gower, this book I direct To thee, and to the philosophical Strode, To vouchsafe there need is to correct, Of your benignities and zcalgs good," And the book ends with a prayer that Christ may make us worthy of His mercy.
الصفحة xxxv - There is, moreover, stronger confirmation of this aspect of the poem. A later poet, to whom we are indebted for a ballad of ' The Green Knight,' — a rifacimento of this romance, or of some intermediate form of it, — has used the same story to account for the origin of another Order. Evidently aware of its original application, but wishing to make his ballad topical, he ends it with the following reference to the Knighthood of the Bath, then newly instituted : ' All the Court was full faine Alive...
الصفحة 154 - I have no doubt that the reading 'of triys' is correct. 759-60. «'.<;. 'chose me as His bride, although unfitting that union might once have seemed (while I was on earth).' There should be no pause after 'vnmete,' and the whole sense of the passage is lost by placing a full-stop after
الصفحة 25 - XXII. That jewel there, so fair begemm'd, up-rais'd her face, her eyes so grey, put on her crown of Orient pearl, and thus full gravely then she spake : " Sir, thou hast misread thy tale, to say thy Pearl is all perdu, that is in chest so comely and strong as in this garden of grace and glee ; for ever to dwell and play herein, where miss and mourning come never nigh ; this were thy treasure-hold, i' faith, wert thou a gentle jeweller.
الصفحة 69 - Lamb, a hundred and forty-four thousand in all, as in the Apocalypse it is clear ; Saint John beheld them in a throng. On the Hill of Zion, that beauteous spot, the Apostle beheld them, in dream divine, array'd for the Bridal on that hill-top,the City New of Jerusalem.
الصفحة xvi - Margarite, a woman, betokeneth grace, lerning, or wisdom of god, or els holy church. If breed, thorow vertue, is mad holy flesshe, what is that our god sayth ? ' It is the spirit that yeveth lyf ; the flesshe, of nothing it profiteth.