The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth CenturyTh. Ewing, 1781 - 470 עמודים |
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עמוד xiv
... best way to the holy land . Acquitting himself in all with fingular addrefs and fidelity , he is made a knight , and loaded with riches . 66 CHAP . Xviii . A knight named Julian is hunting a stag , who turns and fays , you will kill ...
... best way to the holy land . Acquitting himself in all with fingular addrefs and fidelity , he is made a knight , and loaded with riches . 66 CHAP . Xviii . A knight named Julian is hunting a stag , who turns and fays , you will kill ...
עמוד lxxvii
... best opportunities of obfer- vation , who was welcome alike to the feudal castle or the royal palace , and who mingled in the bustle and bufinefs of the world , at that very curious period of fociety , when manners are very far refined ...
... best opportunities of obfer- vation , who was welcome alike to the feudal castle or the royal palace , and who mingled in the bustle and bufinefs of the world , at that very curious period of fociety , when manners are very far refined ...
עמוד 16
... best of yours , I dare wel faine , Than doth the funne the candle light , Or brightest day the darkest night . And therto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the faire ; For what she fayth , ye may it trust , As it by writing sealed ...
... best of yours , I dare wel faine , Than doth the funne the candle light , Or brightest day the darkest night . And therto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the faire ; For what she fayth , ye may it trust , As it by writing sealed ...
עמוד 24
... best 66 66 - I know of no English critic befides , who has mentioned Surrey's Virgil , except Bolton , a great reader of old English books . HYPERCRIT . p . 237. Oxon . 1772 . Among Afcham's Epifiles , there is one to Perez , infcribed ...
... best 66 66 - I know of no English critic befides , who has mentioned Surrey's Virgil , except Bolton , a great reader of old English books . HYPERCRIT . p . 237. Oxon . 1772 . Among Afcham's Epifiles , there is one to Perez , infcribed ...
עמוד 25
... best and established Italian poets wrote in the ftanza , that these efforts to reftore blank - verse , produced any lasting effects in the progress of the Italian poetry . It is very probable , that this specimen of the Eneid in blank ...
... best and established Italian poets wrote in the ftanza , that these efforts to reftore blank - verse , produced any lasting effects in the progress of the Italian poetry . It is very probable , that this specimen of the Eneid in blank ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
againſt alfo almoſt alſo antient Baldwyne becauſe beſt CHAP Chaucer church circumſtances comedy Dante doth duke earl edit Edward the fixth Engliſh faid faint fame fatire fays fecond feems feen fene fhall finging firft firſt flain fome fone fong ftanzas ftory fubject fuch fuppofed fupr George Ferrers GESTA ROMANORUM hath haue himſelf hiſtory houſe Ibid John king knight kyng lady laft laſt Latin leaſt Lond lord mafter manufcript MIRROUR moft moſt mufic muſt noght Oxford paffage Petrarch pfalms play poem poet poetry prefent prince profe publiſhed purpoſe quarto queen Elifabeth reafon reign rhyme romance ſay ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſtate ſtill ſtory ſtyle Surrey thai thair thar thefe theſe Thomas thoſe thou tion tranflated uſed verfe verfion verſe Vincent of Beauvais Virgil wele whofe whoſe writer written wyfe Wynkyn de Worde YWAIN Ywayne
קטעים בולטים
עמוד xxx - ... Detested wretch !" — but 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...
עמוד 492 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the- lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
עמוד 82 - Was call'd the merry fiend of Edmonton. If any here make doubt of such a name, In Edmonton yet fresh unto this day, Fix'd in the wall of that old ancient church, His monument remaineth to be seen : His memory yet in the mouths of men, That whilst he liv'd he could deceive the devil.
עמוד 228 - With reckless hand in grave doth cover it, Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light, but in the ground ylain, In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought, As he had never into the world been brought.
עמוד 143 - These were festal chansons for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the Puritans.
עמוד 496 - ... under certain conditions, and for a limited duration of time. It was actually one of the pretended feats of...
עמוד lxxii - They pretended that he appeared and fought with irresjstible fury, completely armed, and mounted on a stately white horse, in most of their engagements with the Moors ; and because, by his superior prowess in these bloody conflicts, he was supposed to have freed the Spaniards from paying the annual tribute of a hundred Christian virgins to their infidel enemies, they represented him as a professed and powerful champion of distressed damsels. This apotheosis of chivalry in the person of their own...
עמוד 336 - Our maker therfore at these dayes shall not follow Piers plowman nor Gower nor Lydgate nor yet Chaucer, for their language is now out of vse with vs...
עמוד 138 - Those seats, whence long excluded, ttiou must mourn : That gate, for ever barr'd to thy return : Wilt thou not then bewail ill-fated love, And hate a banish'd man, condemn'd in woods to rove?
עמוד 69 - These ladies doth enspire) embraceth all. The Graces in the Muses weed, delite To lead them forth, that men in maze they fall. It...