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 viii
... beginning of the twelfth cen- tury , and collected from Arabian fables , apothegms , and ex- amples . Some are alfo borrowed from an old Latin translation of the CALILAH U DAMNAH , a celebrated fett of eastern fables , to which ...
... beginning of the twelfth cen- tury , and collected from Arabian fables , apothegms , and ex- amples . Some are alfo borrowed from an old Latin translation of the CALILAH U DAMNAH , a celebrated fett of eastern fables , to which ...
עמוד xxiii
... beginning of this Differtation . CHAP . xlix . The duchefs Rofmilla falls in love with Conan , king of Hungary , whom the fees from the walls of the city of Foro - Juli , which he is befieging . She has four fons and two daughters . She ...
... beginning of this Differtation . CHAP . xlix . The duchefs Rofmilla falls in love with Conan , king of Hungary , whom the fees from the walls of the city of Foro - Juli , which he is befieging . She has four fons and two daughters . She ...
עמוד xxxvii
... beginning of the last century , many witches were executed for attempting the lives of perfons , by fabricating representations of them in wax and clay . King James the first , in his DAEMONOLOGIE , fpeaks of this practice as very ...
... beginning of the last century , many witches were executed for attempting the lives of perfons , by fabricating representations of them in wax and clay . King James the first , in his DAEMONOLOGIE , fpeaks of this practice as very ...
עמוד lxxxviii
... this work was not tran- flated into French by Guillaume Nangis , at the beginning of the fourteenth cen- tury . See MEM , LIT. XX . 751. 4to . " that 66 " that most excellent hiftorian Livy , unequalled for 1xxxviii A DISSERTATION ON THE.
... this work was not tran- flated into French by Guillaume Nangis , at the beginning of the fourteenth cen- tury . See MEM , LIT. XX . 751. 4to . " that 66 " that most excellent hiftorian Livy , unequalled for 1xxxviii A DISSERTATION ON THE.
עמוד 1
... beginning of the fixteenth century , not only introduced the ftudies of claffical lite- rature into England , but gave a new turn to our vernacular poetry . At this period , Petrarch still continued the most favo- rite poet of the ...
... beginning of the fixteenth century , not only introduced the ftudies of claffical lite- rature into England , but gave a new turn to our vernacular poetry . At this period , Petrarch still continued the most favo- rite poet of the ...
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
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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...