Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, المجلد 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 |
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... Rhyme , also , and assonance are not infrequent . The poets , it is plain , had now formulated rules for their art . Had Northumbrian poetry lasted , it might have become as scientific as the Icelandic . The last poem belonging to ...
... Rhyme , also , and assonance are not infrequent . The poets , it is plain , had now formulated rules for their art . Had Northumbrian poetry lasted , it might have become as scientific as the Icelandic . The last poem belonging to ...
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... Rhyme - Poem in the Exeter Book , which belongs to the tenth century . It is the only poem in the English tongue which is written in the Scandinavian form called Runhenda , in which the last word of the first half of the verse is rhymed ...
... Rhyme - Poem in the Exeter Book , which belongs to the tenth century . It is the only poem in the English tongue which is written in the Scandinavian form called Runhenda , in which the last word of the first half of the verse is rhymed ...
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... rhyme nor a fixed number of syllables , depended on accent and alliteration . Every verse was divided into two half- verses by a pause , and had four accented syllables , the number of unaccented syllables being indif- ferent ; and the ...
... rhyme nor a fixed number of syllables , depended on accent and alliteration . Every verse was divided into two half- verses by a pause , and had four accented syllables , the number of unaccented syllables being indif- ferent ; and the ...
الصفحة 30
... rhyme which were soon established by the Anglo - Normans when they began to write in English . The Poema Morale ( of which an account will be found below , with specimens , at page 40 ) is thought by some to have first taken shape early ...
... rhyme which were soon established by the Anglo - Normans when they began to write in English . The Poema Morale ( of which an account will be found below , with specimens , at page 40 ) is thought by some to have first taken shape early ...
الصفحة 32
... rhyming chronicle in English , and writing about a century after English imaginative literature had made its new start in Layamon's Brut , Robert of Gloucester gives this account of the relative positions of the French and English ...
... rhyming chronicle in English , and writing about a century after English imaginative literature had made its new start in Layamon's Brut , Robert of Gloucester gives this account of the relative positions of the French and English ...
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الصفحة 369 - ... shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
الصفحة 368 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
الصفحة 372 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt ; the...
الصفحة 409 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
الصفحة 366 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
الصفحة 360 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
الصفحة 370 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice.
الصفحة 353 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
الصفحة 369 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
الصفحة 373 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st...