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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... reader who shall fairly examine the stock of materials here collected , will not be much surprised if the curiosity of the compiler was at length satiated , and if the labour of tran- scription , became too irksome to be farther ...
... reader who shall fairly examine the stock of materials here collected , will not be much surprised if the curiosity of the compiler was at length satiated , and if the labour of tran- scription , became too irksome to be farther ...
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... readers , that beautiful poetry is more frequently calculated to in- flame the imagination , than to chasten the morals , can only lament , without being able to remedy , such a perversion of talent . - The Collection , in its present ...
... readers , that beautiful poetry is more frequently calculated to in- flame the imagination , than to chasten the morals , can only lament , without being able to remedy , such a perversion of talent . - The Collection , in its present ...
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... - Pa- trick Johnstoun - and Mersar . CHAP . XV . REIGN OF HENRY VII . 345 William Dunbar . - Gawin Douglas . - Minor Poets of this Reign , -Stephen Hawes . 372 The Reader is requested to correct the following Errors , [ xxii ]
... - Pa- trick Johnstoun - and Mersar . CHAP . XV . REIGN OF HENRY VII . 345 William Dunbar . - Gawin Douglas . - Minor Poets of this Reign , -Stephen Hawes . 372 The Reader is requested to correct the following Errors , [ xxii ]
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English poets George Ellis. The Reader is requested to correct the following Errors , which have occurred partly in the tran- scribing , and partly in the printing of this Work . Page 42 , line 7 , for Bestrairius , read Bestiarium . 44 ...
English poets George Ellis. The Reader is requested to correct the following Errors , which have occurred partly in the tran- scribing , and partly in the printing of this Work . Page 42 , line 7 , for Bestrairius , read Bestiarium . 44 ...
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... readers as a hopeless attempt , to search for these sources of amusement and information , amidst the obscurity of a ... reader , to preface it by a few general remarks on this part of the subject . It is well known that our English is a ...
... readers as a hopeless attempt , to search for these sources of amusement and information , amidst the obscurity of a ... reader , to preface it by a few general remarks on this part of the subject . It is well known that our English is a ...
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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.