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 65
עמוד iv
... original , now not extant in any Greek writer . Lydgate's Storie of . Thebes . An additional Canterbury Tale . Its plan , and originals . Martianus Capella . Happily imitated by Lydgate . Feudal manners applied to Greece . Specimen of ...
... original , now not extant in any Greek writer . Lydgate's Storie of . Thebes . An additional Canterbury Tale . Its plan , and originals . Martianus Capella . Happily imitated by Lydgate . Feudal manners applied to Greece . Specimen of ...
עמוד 12
... original authors . Nor are they to be entirely neglected in modern and more polished ages . For , befides that they contain curious pictures of the credulity and ignorance of our ancestors , they frequently preferve facts transcribed ...
... original authors . Nor are they to be entirely neglected in modern and more polished ages . For , befides that they contain curious pictures of the credulity and ignorance of our ancestors , they frequently preferve facts transcribed ...
עמוד 18
... original fable in its fimple unimproved state . Whatever was the cafe , it is almost certain that one ftory produced the other . A translation into English of the GESTA ROMANORUM was printed by Wynkyn de Worde , without date . In the ...
... original fable in its fimple unimproved state . Whatever was the cafe , it is almost certain that one ftory produced the other . A translation into English of the GESTA ROMANORUM was printed by Wynkyn de Worde , without date . In the ...
עמוד 20
... original " . It is pleasant to obferve the strange mistakes which Gower , a man of great learning , and the most general fcholar of his age , has committed in this poem , concerning books which he never faw , his violent anachronisms ...
... original " . It is pleasant to obferve the strange mistakes which Gower , a man of great learning , and the most general fcholar of his age , has committed in this poem , concerning books which he never faw , his violent anachronisms ...
עמוד 31
... original feelings were too strong to be fuppreffed by books , and whose learning was overbalanced by genius . This affectation of appearing learned , which yet was natural at the revival of literature , in our old poets , even in those ...
... original feelings were too strong to be fuppreffed by books , and whose learning was overbalanced by genius . This affectation of appearing learned , which yet was natural at the revival of literature , in our old poets , even in those ...
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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.