The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century, כרך 1T. Tegg, 1824 - 482 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 90
עמוד 20
... afterwards recalled , and in furnishing the other committed an error equally great with that he amended . A second comprises the very " egregious blunder " of calling a piece of political rhyme a " ballad , " when it is not written in ...
... afterwards recalled , and in furnishing the other committed an error equally great with that he amended . A second comprises the very " egregious blunder " of calling a piece of political rhyme a " ballad , " when it is not written in ...
עמוד 43
... afterwards is found dead of his wounds . The female spirit is Grendel's mother's , who answers to the description of A. Liberalis . It may be worth noticing that a picture preserved at Temessa , representing the combat of Euthymus ...
... afterwards is found dead of his wounds . The female spirit is Grendel's mother's , who answers to the description of A. Liberalis . It may be worth noticing that a picture preserved at Temessa , representing the combat of Euthymus ...
עמוד 54
... afterwards by Lanzi , this god is seen weighing the souls of Memnon and Achilles ; which would afford another reason for the supposed affinity . But the worship of Odin as supreme God , like that of Dio- nysus in his mysteries , and ...
... afterwards by Lanzi , this god is seen weighing the souls of Memnon and Achilles ; which would afford another reason for the supposed affinity . But the worship of Odin as supreme God , like that of Dio- nysus in his mysteries , and ...
עמוד 87
... afterwards ravaged by a lion , persons were dispatch- ed to destroy it ; but Alcathous meeting the monster , slew it , and cut out the tongue , with which he returned to Me- gara . The party sent to perform the exploit also returned ...
... afterwards ravaged by a lion , persons were dispatch- ed to destroy it ; but Alcathous meeting the monster , slew it , and cut out the tongue , with which he returned to Me- gara . The party sent to perform the exploit also returned ...
עמוד iii
... afterwards expresses his belief , that by Bretagne and Bretons were meant the island and inhabitants of Great Britain . At the same time , it does not ( he thinks ) appear , that any such lays are preserved in Wales any more than in ...
... afterwards expresses his belief , that by Bretagne and Bretons were meant the island and inhabitants of Great Britain . At the same time , it does not ( he thinks ) appear , that any such lays are preserved in Wales any more than in ...
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afterwards Anglo-Saxon antient appears apud Arabian Armorica Arthur bards Bede Beowulf Bibl bishop Bodl Bodleian library Brit British Brunne called century CHAP Charlemagne Chaucer Chron chronicle cited dæmon Dares Phrygius Dictys Cretensis Du Cange Edda edit England English English Poetry fable fiction France Geoffrey of Monmouth GESTA GESTA ROMANORUM gold Graal Greek Harl Henry hero Hist holy ibid infr king king Arthur knight kyng language Latin learned Leland londe manuscript ment mentioned metrical minstrels monastery monks Norman northern Odin original Paris passage piece poem poet poetry popular printed probably prose reign rhyme Richard Ritson Robert ROMANORUM Saint Saracens Saxon says Script sone song story supposed tale ther thou tion translated ubi supr verse Vincent of Beauvais Warton Welsh writer written wrote
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עמוד 162 - converted ideas of deformity into the true sublime, and rendered an image terrible, which in other hands would have probably been ridiculous. Methought his eyes Were two full moons, he had a thousand noses, Horns whelk'd and wav'd like the enridged sea. It was some fiend
עמוד ccv - scarce his speech began, When the strange partner seem'd no longer man: His youthful face grew more serenely sweet, His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet; Fair rounds of radiant points invest his hair; Celestial odours fill the purple air: And wings, whose colours
עמוד ccv - purple air: And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display, The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light. The same apologue occurs, with some slight additions and variations
עמוד 82 - Also his two fellows saw come from heaven a hand, but they saw not the body; and then it came right to the vessel and took it and so bare it up to heaven. Sithence was there never no man so hardy for to say that he had seen the
עמוד ccl - Les simples qui n'ont point de quoy y mesler quelque chose du leur, et qui n'y apportent que le soin et la diligence de ramasser tout ce qui vient a leur notice, et d'enregistrer a la bonne foy toutes choses sans chois et sans triage, nous laissent le jugement
עמוד xlviii - supposed to be the descendants of the original Irish bards'. A writer of equal elegance and veracity relates, " that a gentleman of the north of Ireland has told me of his own experience, that in his wolf-huntings there, when he used to be abroad in the mountains three or four days together, and laid very ill
עמוד 173 - Over gestes it has the steem, Over all that is or was, If men it sayd as made Thomas; Bot I here it no man so say, That of some copple som is away; So thare fayre saying here beforne, Is thare travayle nere forlorne: Thai sayd it for pride and nobleye, That non were suylk as thei.
עמוד cclxviii - maist behold thy face, And thine own realmes in Lond of Faery, And in this antique image thy great ancestry '. It was not, however, solely from an unmeaning and a wanton spirit of refinement, that the fashion of resolving every thing into allegory so universally prevailed. The same apology may be offered for
עמוד clxxxii - sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys and of trophies hung, Of forests and inchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the car.
עמוד 62 - So shall thou instant reach the realm assign'd, In wondrous ships, self-moved, instinct with mind: No helm secures their course, no pilot guides, Like men intelligent, they plough the tides; Conscious of every coast and every bay That lies beneath the sun's alluring ray.