Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language,Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 1334 من الصفحات |
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... rhyme or metre ; - and those which were so far disguised as to offer no certain meaning , have been left to that fortuitous combination of letters which the original transcri- bers or printers had assigned to them . Such are printed in ...
... rhyme or metre ; - and those which were so far disguised as to offer no certain meaning , have been left to that fortuitous combination of letters which the original transcri- bers or printers had assigned to them . Such are printed in ...
الصفحة 35
... rhyme , in imitation of the Latin monkish versifiers . To whom we should ascribe the original invention of this ornament is not quite so certain . Fauchet claims it for his countrymen ; but , as he founds their pretensions on the ...
... rhyme , in imitation of the Latin monkish versifiers . To whom we should ascribe the original invention of this ornament is not quite so certain . Fauchet claims it for his countrymen ; but , as he founds their pretensions on the ...
الصفحة 36
... rhyme in any modern language . But , on the other hand , it may be fairly argued , that , as our stock of northern literature is very incomplete , we cannot draw any positive conclusion from the deficiency of specimens among the works ...
... rhyme in any modern language . But , on the other hand , it may be fairly argued , that , as our stock of northern literature is very incomplete , we cannot draw any positive conclusion from the deficiency of specimens among the works ...
الصفحة 42
... rhyme with another , but one half with the other half , as , " Al busuin est truved , l'amie é epruved , " Unches ne fud ami , qui al busuign failli , " & c . But this mechanism of verse , which he borrowed from the Latin versifiers of ...
... rhyme with another , but one half with the other half , as , " Al busuin est truved , l'amie é epruved , " Unches ne fud ami , qui al busuign failli , " & c . But this mechanism of verse , which he borrowed from the Latin versifiers of ...
الصفحة 57
... rhyme ; a mode of composition which may possibly have been adopted for the purpose of being easily chanted . It is in the British Mus . MSS . Harl . No. 270 ; and M. de la Rue suspects that the stolen copy exists in the MSS . Cotton ...
... rhyme ; a mode of composition which may possibly have been adopted for the purpose of being easily chanted . It is in the British Mus . MSS . Harl . No. 270 ; and M. de la Rue suspects that the stolen copy exists in the MSS . Cotton ...
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الصفحة 324 - Now have we many chimnies; and yet out tender**** 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 quacke or pose, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted.
الصفحة 279 - His muse was of universal access; and he was not only a poet of his monastery, but of the world in general. If a disguising was intended by the company of goldsmiths, a mask before his majesty at Eltham, a maygame for the sheriffs and aldermen of London, a mumming before the lord mayor, a procession of pageants from the creation for the festival of Corpus...
الصفحة 326 - ... 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 303 - As for the time (though I of mirthis food Might have no more) to look it did me good.
الصفحة 331 - Rushes green!" another gan greet; One bade me buy a hood to cover my head, But for want of Money I might not be sped, Then I hied me into East Cheap; One cries "Ribs of beef," and many a pie; Pewter pots they clattered on a heap, There was harp, pipe, and minstrelsie. "Yea, by cock!
الصفحة 208 - Gower will find smooth numbers and easy rhymes, of which Chaucer is supposed to have been the inventor, and the French words, whether good or bad, of which Chaucer is charged as the importer. Some innovations he might probably make, like others, in the infancy of our poetry, which the paucity of books does not allow us to discover with particular exactness; but the works of Gower...
الصفحة 306 - And in my head I drew right hastily; And eft-soones I lent it forth again : And saw her walk that very womanly. With no wight mo'° but only women twain.
الصفحة 215 - I 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 323 - Mary's days to wonder, but chiefly when they saw what large diet was used in many of these so homely cottages; insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner — "These English (quoth he) have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king.
الصفحة 331 - I saw where hung mine owne hood, That I had lost among the throng ; To buy my own hood I thought it wrong : I knew it, well as I did my creed ; But, for lack of money, I could not speed. The taverner took me by the sleeve,