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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... played on the rote . This is thought to have been the modern vielle , used by the Savoyards in our streets . 3 Voialx sons , sons voyaux , probably mean vocal songs . * Vileors , are probably players on the viele or violin . Lays ...
... played on the rote . This is thought to have been the modern vielle , used by the Savoyards in our streets . 3 Voialx sons , sons voyaux , probably mean vocal songs . * Vileors , are probably players on the viele or violin . Lays ...
Стр. 49
... played with tables , and distinguished as the greater and the less ; but whether they were species of back- gammon or draughts , is uncertain . 4 Two and two . * 1 have omitted the remainder of this passage , which I thought rather ...
... played with tables , and distinguished as the greater and the less ; but whether they were species of back- gammon or draughts , is uncertain . 4 Two and two . * 1 have omitted the remainder of this passage , which I thought rather ...
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... played at , wither - games , Sax .: games of emu- lation , i . e . justed . * Some they on field played under shield ; i . e . fought with swords . Moni ane kunnes gomen Ther heo gunnen drinen . ' [ 71 ] 1576 6 Walter and Francis ...
... played at , wither - games , Sax .: games of emu- lation , i . e . justed . * Some they on field played under shield ; i . e . fought with swords . Moni ane kunnes gomen Ther heo gunnen drinen . ' [ 71 ] 1576 6 Walter and Francis ...
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... festival , and all the ladies , leaned over the walls to behold the nobles there , and that folk play . • This lasted three days , such games and such plays . The king gon to spekene1 And agaf his gode cnihten [ 72 ] Thomas Campion, 1577 ...
... festival , and all the ladies , leaned over the walls to behold the nobles there , and that folk play . • This lasted three days , such games and such plays . The king gon to spekene1 And agaf his gode cnihten [ 72 ] Thomas Campion, 1577 ...
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... day After meat goeth to play ; ' Cry . Sax . • Singing - birds ? 3 Dressed . 4 Larks . 5 Taught . 6 Quickly . 7 Ginger and cinnamon . 8 Labour . 10 Windows . 11 Ended . 9 Go . 12 Laid up . N'is there hawk , no fowl so swift , Better [ 91 ]
... day After meat goeth to play ; ' Cry . Sax . • Singing - birds ? 3 Dressed . 4 Larks . 5 Taught . 6 Quickly . 7 Ginger and cinnamon . 8 Labour . 10 Windows . 11 Ended . 9 Go . 12 Laid up . N'is there hawk , no fowl so swift , Better [ 91 ]
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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.