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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... never fail to recognize a kindred dialect on their arrival at St. Petersburgh . Many more examples might be adduced to shew that the language of a country is never destroyed but by the annihilation of its inhabitants , nor materially ...
... never fail to recognize a kindred dialect on their arrival at St. Petersburgh . Many more examples might be adduced to shew that the language of a country is never destroyed but by the annihilation of its inhabitants , nor materially ...
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... white fish of the brooks ; The greedy gos - hawk , The grey deer , And wolf wild . Never was there wail more , In this island , * That builds his house in the loftiest woods . ( Æfre gita * Folces gefylled ) Beforan thyssum Swordes [ 29 ]
... white fish of the brooks ; The greedy gos - hawk , The grey deer , And wolf wild . Never was there wail more , In this island , * That builds his house in the loftiest woods . ( Æfre gita * Folces gefylled ) Beforan thyssum Swordes [ 29 ]
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... never wraught . Maille was split , and helmis roven , The wall of shieldis down they cloven : The Thanis which cold with Edmond fare To meet the fomen well were yare . For it was comen to hem of kynde Hir londis and tresoúrs to fend ...
... never wraught . Maille was split , and helmis roven , The wall of shieldis down they cloven : The Thanis which cold with Edmond fare To meet the fomen well were yare . For it was comen to hem of kynde Hir londis and tresoúrs to fend ...
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... ded men for their mede On hir corses for to fede . Sen the Saxonis first come In schippes over the sea - fome , Of the yeres that ben forgone , Greater bataile was never none . CHAPTER II . The same Subject continued . - Account [ 34 ]
... ded men for their mede On hir corses for to fede . Sen the Saxonis first come In schippes over the sea - fome , Of the yeres that ben forgone , Greater bataile was never none . CHAPTER II . The same Subject continued . - Account [ 34 ]
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... never was a period when the town of Canterbury would not have furnished a sufficient audience for such an exhibition . This work of Guernes is written in stanzas of five Alex- andrines , all ending with the same rhyme ; a mode of ...
... never was a period when the town of Canterbury would not have furnished a sufficient audience for such an exhibition . This work of Guernes is written in stanzas of five Alex- andrines , all ending with the same rhyme ; a mode of ...
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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.