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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... Italy , France , and England , the scheme and mechanism of grammar has become progressively more simple , in proportion to the number of heterogeneous parts of which the respective languages have been composed . It is remarkable that Dr ...
... Italy , France , and England , the scheme and mechanism of grammar has become progressively more simple , in proportion to the number of heterogeneous parts of which the respective languages have been composed . It is remarkable that Dr ...
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... Italian monks , as a succeda- neum for that regular prosody , the harmony of which had been lost in the corrupt pronunciation of the barbarous conquerors of Italy . But be this as it may , the Norman poets were certainly our immediate ...
... Italian monks , as a succeda- neum for that regular prosody , the harmony of which had been lost in the corrupt pronunciation of the barbarous conquerors of Italy . But be this as it may , the Norman poets were certainly our immediate ...
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... Italian orlo . In Cotgrave's Dict . we have orle , for a hem or border ; hence the word ourler . 4 Meadow . Prairie . Fr. 5. Very . 6 The sweet cyprus , a sort of rush , the roots of which were supposed to be an excellent stomachic . It ...
... Italian orlo . In Cotgrave's Dict . we have orle , for a hem or border ; hence the word ourler . 4 Meadow . Prairie . Fr. 5. Very . 6 The sweet cyprus , a sort of rush , the roots of which were supposed to be an excellent stomachic . It ...
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... Italy the ori- ginal expression is become proverbial . In the second volume of Mr. Way's translations from Le Grand's abridgment of the ancient French Fabliaux , is a poem on the " Pays de Cocaigne ; " but not at all resembling the work ...
... Italy the ori- ginal expression is become proverbial . In the second volume of Mr. Way's translations from Le Grand's abridgment of the ancient French Fabliaux , is a poem on the " Pays de Cocaigne ; " but not at all resembling the work ...
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... Italians , the improvisatori of Rome and Florence , who are usually ready to attend the table of a traveller , and greet him with an extemporary poem on any subject which he shall prescribe , and pro- tracted to a length which is only ...
... Italians , the improvisatori of Rome and Florence , who are usually ready to attend the table of a traveller , and greet him with an extemporary poem on any subject which he shall prescribe , and pro- tracted to a length which is only ...
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Стр. 314 - 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. 229 - Freedom the zest to pleasure gives— He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want, are all Summ'd up within the name of thrall.
Стр. 11 - In English, and in writing of our tongue, " So pray I to God that none mis-write thee...
Стр. 269 - Occleve led the way : and that he is the " first of our writers whose style is clothed with " that perspicuity in which the English phraseology " appears at this day, to an English reader.
Стр. 42 - IT WAS FROM ENGLAND AND NORMANDY THAT THE FRENCH RECEIVED THE FIRST WORKS WHICH DESERVE TO BE CITED IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
Стр. 316 - ... 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. 321 - 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. 207 - 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 a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Стр. 344 - Bruce," says an elegant critic, " is evidently the work of a politician as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always employed with judgment ; so that every event is prepared and rendered probable by the means to which it is attributed ; whereas the life of Wallace is a mere romance, in which the hero hews down whole squadrons with his single arm, and is indebted for every victory to his own...
Стр. 224 - When Alexander our king was dead, That Scotland led in love and lee, ' Away was sons * of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, ofgamyn and glee : Our gold was changed into lead.