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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... ( says he ) by a mixture of the Norman , becomes apparent ; yet it is not so much altered by the admixture of new words , which might be imputed to commerce with the Continent , as by changes of its own forms and terminations , for which ...
... ( says he ) by a mixture of the Norman , becomes apparent ; yet it is not so much altered by the admixture of new words , which might be imputed to commerce with the Continent , as by changes of its own forms and terminations , for which ...
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... says , " And , for there is so great diversité " In English , and in writing of our tongue , " So pray I to God that none mis - writé thee , " Ne thee mis - metre for default of tongue : " And , read whereso thou be , or ellés sung ...
... says , " And , for there is so great diversité " In English , and in writing of our tongue , " So pray I to God that none mis - writé thee , " Ne thee mis - metre for default of tongue : " And , read whereso thou be , or ellés sung ...
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... say a few words concerning their poetry . This , in its spirit and character , seems to have resembled those Runic odes so admirably imitated by Mr. Gray : but its mechanism and scheme of versifica- tion , notwithstanding all the pains ...
... say a few words concerning their poetry . This , in its spirit and character , seems to have resembled those Runic odes so admirably imitated by Mr. Gray : but its mechanism and scheme of versifica- tion , notwithstanding all the pains ...
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... say , upon changes in the tone or in the strength of the voice , than upon quantity , by which is meant the length of time employed in pronouncing the syllables . Upon the whole , it must still remain a doubt , whether the Anglo - Saxon ...
... say , upon changes in the tone or in the strength of the voice , than upon quantity , by which is meant the length of time employed in pronouncing the syllables . Upon the whole , it must still remain a doubt , whether the Anglo - Saxon ...
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... say , a little before the time of Minot , Gower , and Chaucer ; and was the natural result of the increasing intercourse between the Norman nobles and their English vassals . In the mean time , the English monarchs were the most liberal ...
... say , a little before the time of Minot , Gower , and Chaucer ; and was the natural result of the increasing intercourse between the Norman nobles and their English vassals . In the mean time , the English monarchs were the most liberal ...
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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.