The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are Prefixed, Two Dissertations. ... By Thomas Warton, ...Printed for, and sold by J. Dodsley, 1778 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 36
עמוד 4
... seems to have been his object to croud all his erudition into this elaborate performance . Yet there is often fome degree of contrivance and art in his manner of introducing and adapting fubjects of a very distant nature , and which are ...
... seems to have been his object to croud all his erudition into this elaborate performance . Yet there is often fome degree of contrivance and art in his manner of introducing and adapting fubjects of a very distant nature , and which are ...
עמוד 10
... seems to have used another chronicle written by the fame Godfrey , never printed , called SPECULUM REGUM , or the MIRROUR OF KINGS , which is almost as multifarious as the last ; contain- ing a genealogy of all the potentates , Trojan ...
... seems to have used another chronicle written by the fame Godfrey , never printed , called SPECULUM REGUM , or the MIRROUR OF KINGS , which is almost as multifarious as the last ; contain- ing a genealogy of all the potentates , Trojan ...
עמוד 38
... seems to be , that his writings contributed to propagate and establish those improvements in our language which were now beginning to take place . He was educated in the mu- nicipal law , as were both Chaucer and Gower ; and it re ...
... seems to be , that his writings contributed to propagate and establish those improvements in our language which were now beginning to take place . He was educated in the mu- nicipal law , as were both Chaucer and Gower ; and it re ...
עמוד 51
... seem rather relapfing into barbarism , than availing them- felves of those ftriking ornaments which his judgment and ... seems to have arrived at his highest point of emi- nence about the year 1430. Many of his poems , however , In a ...
... seem rather relapfing into barbarism , than availing them- felves of those ftriking ornaments which his judgment and ... seems to have arrived at his highest point of emi- nence about the year 1430. Many of his poems , however , In a ...
עמוד 52
... seems to have poffeffed a greater versatility of talents . He moves with equal ease in every mode of compofition . His hymns , and his ballads , have the fame degree of merit : and whether his fubject be the life of a hermit or a hero ...
... seems to have poffeffed a greater versatility of talents . He moves with equal ease in every mode of compofition . His hymns , and his ballads , have the fame degree of merit : and whether his fubject be the life of a hermit or a hero ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
alfo alſo antient appears BALADE becauſe beſt Bibl biſhop Boccacio Bodl Boethius called caſtle Chaucer church circumſtances claffics compofition court defcribed defcription Du Cange edit elegant England Engliſh eſtabliſhed faid faint fame fatire fays fecond feems feven fhall fhews fhould fing firft firſt fixth flouriſhed fociety fome foon French ftanzas ftory ftudies fubject fuch fuppofe fupr GESTA ROMANORUM Greek Harl Henry himſelf hiſtory houſe Ibid infr John John Lydgate king king Arthur kynge ladies Latin learned leaſt Lond lord Lydgate mafter manufcript mentioned moft monk moſt muſt obferves occafion Oxford Oxon paffage perfon Petrarch piece play poem poet poetry prefent printed profe publiſhed purpoſe queen reign romance ſcholars Scotland ſeems ſhe SIGNAT Skelton ſtate ſtory thare thefe theſe thofe thoſe tranflated univerſity uſed verfe verſe whofe whoſe writer written wrote Wynkyn de Worde
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 284 - Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons tower The mid aerial sky.
עמוד 461 - The study of the classics, together with a colder magic and a tamer mythology, introduced method into composition : and the universal ambition of rivalling those new patterns of excellence, the faultless models of Greece and Rome, produced that bane of invention, IMITATION.
עמוד 207 - It is certain that they had their use, not only in teaching the great truths of scripture to men who could not read the Bible, but in abolishing the barbarous attachment to military games, and the bloody contentions of the tournament, which had so long prevailed as the sole species of popular amusement. Rude and even ridiculous as they were, they softened the manners of the people, by diverting the public attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned...
עמוד 122 - Hebraic(R, &c., 4to. The printer was Wynkyn de Worde, and the author complains, that he was obliged to omit his whole third part, because the printer had no Hebrew types. Some few Hebrew and Arabic characters, however, are introduced ; but extremely rude, and evidently cut in wood. They are the first of the sort made use of in England.
עמוד 277 - I have been prolix in my citations and explanations of this poem, because I am of opinion, that the imagination of Dunbar is not less suited to satirical than to sublime allegory ; and that he is the first poet who has appeared with any degree of spirit in this way of writing since Pierce Plowman. His THISTLE AND ROSE, and GOLDEN TERGE, are generally and justly mentioned as his capital works; but the natural complexion of his genius is of the moral and didactic cast.
עמוד 49 - ... and we fondly anticipate a long continuance of gentle gales and vernal serenity. But winter returns with redoubled horrors : the clouds...
עמוד 363 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.