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 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 . 14.
... 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 . 14.
الصفحة xv
... King , 1591 91 89 Francis Quarles , 1591 96 90 George Herbert , 1593 99 91 Isaac Walton , 1593 101 92 James Shirley , 1594 103 93 Thomas May , 1596 108 94 Patrick Hannay , 1597 109 95 John Hagthorpe , 1597 112 96 Sir John Mennis , 1598 ...
... King , 1591 91 89 Francis Quarles , 1591 96 90 George Herbert , 1593 99 91 Isaac Walton , 1593 101 92 James Shirley , 1594 103 93 Thomas May , 1596 108 94 Patrick Hannay , 1597 109 95 John Hagthorpe , 1597 112 96 Sir John Mennis , 1598 ...
الصفحة xxi
... King of Scotland - Extract from the " King's Quair . " · 295 CHAP . XIII . REIGN OF HENRY VI . Digression [ xxi ]
... King of Scotland - Extract from the " King's Quair . " · 295 CHAP . XIII . REIGN OF HENRY VI . Digression [ xxi ]
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... King , Of Earls the Lord , Of Barons the bold chief , And his brother eke , care certainly letters of the same organ ; and in Saxon cafre and cafost , are chiefer , chiefest ; and Matt . xxvii . 57 , Gothic , gabigs is applied to Joseph ...
... King , Of Earls the Lord , Of Barons the bold chief , And his brother eke , care certainly letters of the same organ ; and in Saxon cafre and cafost , are chiefer , chiefest ; and Matt . xxvii . 57 , Gothic , gabigs is applied to Joseph ...
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... King and Atheling , Their country sought ; West - Saxon land . The war screamers , Left they behind . The hoarse bittern , The sallow paddock , The swarth raven With horned nib , * And the house - wooding heron , Eating white fish of ...
... King and Atheling , Their country sought ; West - Saxon land . The war screamers , Left they behind . The hoarse bittern , The sallow paddock , The swarth raven With horned nib , * And the house - wooding heron , Eating white fish of ...
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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.