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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... to picturesque description , or to the delineation of national manners ; whereas the second division of the work , is meant to exhibit the best models that could be found , in each reign , of regular and finished com- position [ vii ]
... to picturesque description , or to the delineation of national manners ; whereas the second division of the work , is meant to exhibit the best models that could be found , in each reign , of regular and finished com- position [ vii ]
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... manners and customs considerably different from our own ; and it is the frequency of such pictures , interspersed in the relations of voyages and travels , that princi- pally recommends them to notice , and explains the avidity with ...
... manners and customs considerably different from our own ; and it is the frequency of such pictures , interspersed in the relations of voyages and travels , that princi- pally recommends them to notice , and explains the avidity with ...
الصفحة 2
... manners , would attract very general notice , if it were not considered by the greater number of readers as a hopeless attempt , to search for these sources of amusement and information , amidst the obscurity of a difficult , and almost ...
... manners , would attract very general notice , if it were not considered by the greater number of readers as a hopeless attempt , to search for these sources of amusement and information , amidst the obscurity of a difficult , and almost ...
الصفحة 56
... manners which he has preserved , and which are not to be found in any other author . In descriptive poetry he seems to have possessed considerable merit ; and , supposing him the author of the Song on the advantages of the Crusade ...
... manners which he has preserved , and which are not to be found in any other author . In descriptive poetry he seems to have possessed considerable merit ; and , supposing him the author of the Song on the advantages of the Crusade ...
الصفحة 58
... manners , the direct communication of which would have been considered by the monkish analists as degra- ding to the dignity of their narrative . But these details , which are neglected by the historian , form the principal materials of ...
... manners , the direct communication of which would have been considered by the monkish analists as degra- ding to the dignity of their narrative . But these details , which are neglected by the historian , form the principal materials 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.