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, Том 11801 |
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... there are in the Lord's Prayer only three words of French or Latin extrac- tion . On the other hand , Mr. Tyrwhitt contends that , about the time of Chaucer , " though the form of our language was still Saxón , the matter [ 2 ]
... there are in the Lord's Prayer only three words of French or Latin extrac- tion . On the other hand , Mr. Tyrwhitt contends that , about the time of Chaucer , " though the form of our language was still Saxón , the matter [ 2 ]
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... hand to plegan . 22 Hæleth a nanum Thæra the mid Anlafe Ofer mæra gebland , 23 On lides 24 bosme , Land gesohton , Fæge to gefeohte . 18 The MS . Tiberius , A. vi . gives read , not sæd , the printed reading . 19 Here to thrill or drill ...
... hand to plegan . 22 Hæleth a nanum Thæra the mid Anlafe Ofer mæra gebland , 23 On lides 24 bosme , Land gesohton , Fæge to gefeohte . 18 The MS . Tiberius , A. vi . gives read , not sæd , the printed reading . 19 Here to thrill or drill ...
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... hands to ply . Health aye ( was ) none To them who with Aulaff O'er the seas blown were , On the bosom of the waves , The land they sought , Foe to fight . of this word , Ps . xvi . 14 , giving meche where another has sword : the first ...
... hands to ply . Health aye ( was ) none To them who with Aulaff O'er the seas blown were , On the bosom of the waves , The land they sought , Foe to fight . of this word , Ps . xvi . 14 , giving meche where another has sword : the first ...
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... 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 speci- mens among the works of the Scalds : —that rhyme , which certainly is not ...
... 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 speci- mens among the works of the Scalds : —that rhyme , which certainly is not ...
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... hand , with no less policy , declared themselves the champions of all the privileges obtained or claimed by the cities , who thus derived a double advantage from the contest for popularity between the king and the aristocracy . It is ...
... hand , with no less policy , declared themselves the champions of all the privileges obtained or claimed by the cities , who thus derived a double advantage from the contest for popularity between the king and the aristocracy . It is ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 40 - IT WAS FROM ENGLAND AND NORMANDY THAT THE FRENCH RECEIVED THE FIRST WORKS WHICH DESERVE TO BE CITED IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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,
Стр. 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.