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 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 87
עמוד 1
... language , he laboured to reform its irregularities , and to establish an English style . In these respects he resembled his friend and cotemporary Chaucer : but he participated no confiderable portion of Chaucer's fpirit , imagination ...
... language , he laboured to reform its irregularities , and to establish an English style . In these respects he resembled his friend and cotemporary Chaucer : but he participated no confiderable portion of Chaucer's fpirit , imagination ...
עמוד 2
... language is tolerably perfpicuous , and his verfification often harmonious : but his poetry is of a grave and fententious turn . He has much good fenfe , folid re- flection , and useful obfervation . But he is ferious and di- dactic on ...
... language is tolerably perfpicuous , and his verfification often harmonious : but his poetry is of a grave and fententious turn . He has much good fenfe , folid re- flection , and useful obfervation . But he is ferious and di- dactic on ...
עמוד 13
... language , THE TALE OF TROY DIVINE . This piece was first printed at Cologne in the year1477 ' . At Colonia an Italian translation appeared in the fame year , and one at Venice in 1481. It was tranflated into Italian fo early as 1324 ...
... language , THE TALE OF TROY DIVINE . This piece was first printed at Cologne in the year1477 ' . At Colonia an Italian translation appeared in the fame year , and one at Venice in 1481. It was tranflated into Italian fo early as 1324 ...
עמוד 24
... languages , more especially by the version of the Hebrew bible into Latin by faint Jerom , in the fourth century and that at length , after the labours of many celebrated writers , it received its final confummation in Ovid , the poet ...
... languages , more especially by the version of the Hebrew bible into Latin by faint Jerom , in the fourth century and that at length , after the labours of many celebrated writers , it received its final confummation in Ovid , the poet ...
עמוד 38
... language , was confined only to a few writers , who lived more in the world and in polite life : and it was long , before a general change in the public phrase- ology was effected . Nor muft we expect among the minstrels , who were ...
... language , was confined only to a few writers , who lived more in the world and in polite life : and it was long , before a general change in the public phrase- ology was effected . Nor muft we expect among the minstrels , who were ...
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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.