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, المجلد 11801 |
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الصفحة xi
... John Gower 6 John Barber 1280 - 1300 1326 1326 7 Geoffrey Chaucer 1328 8 Andrew Wyntown 1365 9 John Lydgate 1375 10 King James I. 1395 11 Henry the Minstrel . 1406 12 Juliana Berners 1440 Born about 13 Robert Henrysoun , quite uncertain .
... John Gower 6 John Barber 1280 - 1300 1326 1326 7 Geoffrey Chaucer 1328 8 Andrew Wyntown 1365 9 John Lydgate 1375 10 King James I. 1395 11 Henry the Minstrel . 1406 12 Juliana Berners 1440 Born about 13 Robert Henrysoun , quite uncertain .
الصفحة xii
... John Skelton , born 20 William Roy , flourished 1470 1526 21 John Heywood , birth uncertain , died about 1565 22 Sir David Lindsay , born about SPECIMENS . - . 1590 Born Page 23 Sir Thomas Wyatt , 1503 43 24 George Boleyn , Visct ...
... John Skelton , born 20 William Roy , flourished 1470 1526 21 John Heywood , birth uncertain , died about 1565 22 Sir David Lindsay , born about SPECIMENS . - . 1590 Born Page 23 Sir Thomas Wyatt , 1503 43 24 George Boleyn , Visct ...
الصفحة xiii
... John Lylie , 1553 211 47 Sir Philip Sidney , 1554 217 48 Fulke Greville , Lord Brook , 1554 234 49 Nicholas Breton , 1555 240 50 Thomas Lodge , 1556 259 51 George Chapman , 1557 264 52 William Warner , 1558 267 53 Henry Constable , 1559 ...
... John Lylie , 1553 211 47 Sir Philip Sidney , 1554 217 48 Fulke Greville , Lord Brook , 1554 234 49 Nicholas Breton , 1555 240 50 Thomas Lodge , 1556 259 51 George Chapman , 1557 264 52 William Warner , 1558 267 53 Henry Constable , 1559 ...
الصفحة xiv
... John Donne , 68 Ben Jonson , 1569 339 1571 342 1574 344 - 1574 347 69 Dr. Joseph Hall , 1574 352 VOL . III . 70 ... John Beaumont , 81 John Fletcher , 82 Francis Beaumont , 1582 42 1582 44 - 1576 46 - 1585 83 William Drummond , 84 David ...
... John Donne , 68 Ben Jonson , 1569 339 1571 342 1574 344 - 1574 347 69 Dr. Joseph Hall , 1574 352 VOL . III . 70 ... John Beaumont , 81 John Fletcher , 82 Francis Beaumont , 1582 42 1582 44 - 1576 46 - 1585 83 William Drummond , 84 David ...
الصفحة xv
... John Hagthorpe , 1597 112 96 Sir John Mennis , 1598 358 97 Thomas Carew , 1600 130 98 Dr. William Strode , 1600 147 99 Robert Gomersall , 1600 150 100 Sir Kenelm Digby , 1603 154 101 Dr. Jasper Mayne , 1604 156 102 Dr. James Smith ...
... John Hagthorpe , 1597 112 96 Sir John Mennis , 1598 358 97 Thomas Carew , 1600 130 98 Dr. William Strode , 1600 147 99 Robert Gomersall , 1600 150 100 Sir Kenelm Digby , 1603 154 101 Dr. Jasper Mayne , 1604 156 102 Dr. James Smith ...
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الصفحة 213 - 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 the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
الصفحة 301 - And sing with us, away ! winter away ! " Come summer, come ! the sweet season and sun ! " Awake, for shame ! that have your heavens won ! " And amorously lift up your headis all ; " Thank love, that list you to his mercy call I
الصفحة 320 - 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.
الصفحة 322 - ... 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...
الصفحة 275 - I am of opinion, that Lydgate made considerable additions to those amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way : and that he is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader.
الصفحة 40 - IT WAS FROM ENGLAND AND NORMANDY THAT THE FRENCH RECEIVED THE FIRST WORKS WHICH DESERVE TO BE CITED IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
الصفحة 323 - As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides.
الصفحة 105 - Thomas, &c. It appears, from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr Douce, of London, containing a French metrical romance of Sir Tristrem, that the work of our Thomas the Rhymer was known, and referred to, by the minstrels of Normandy and Bretagne.
الصفحة 327 - 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,
الصفحة 316 - Ploughman, have highly extolled this useful body of men, while the French minstrels of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries universally seem to approve the supercilious contempt with which the nobles affected to treat them.