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 100
עמוד iii
... poems . His tomb . His Confeffio Amantis . Its fubject and plan . An unfuc- cessful imitation of the Roman de la Rose . Ariftotle's Secre- tum Secretorum . Chronicles of the middle ages . Colonna . Romance of Lancelot . The Gefta ...
... poems . His tomb . His Confeffio Amantis . Its fubject and plan . An unfuc- cessful imitation of the Roman de la Rose . Ariftotle's Secre- tum Secretorum . Chronicles of the middle ages . Colonna . Romance of Lancelot . The Gefta ...
עמוד iv
... poem in honour of Saint Edmund . Prefented to Henry the fixth , at Bury - abbey , in a most splendid manuscript , now remaining . His Lyf of our Lady . Elegance and harmony of his file and verfification , SECTION IV . p . 61 . Lydgate ...
... poem in honour of Saint Edmund . Prefented to Henry the fixth , at Bury - abbey , in a most splendid manuscript , now remaining . His Lyf of our Lady . Elegance and harmony of his file and verfification , SECTION IV . p . 61 . Lydgate ...
עמוד v
... poem by Wil- liam of Naffyngton . His Prologue explained . Minstrels and Gestours to be distinguished . Gest of the Three Kings of Co- logne fung in the arched chamber of the Prior at Winchester . The Geft of the Seven Sleepers ...
... poem by Wil- liam of Naffyngton . His Prologue explained . Minstrels and Gestours to be distinguished . Gest of the Three Kings of Co- logne fung in the arched chamber of the Prior at Winchester . The Geft of the Seven Sleepers ...
עמוד vi
... poets continued . Sir David Lyndefay . His chief perfor- mances the Dreme , and Monarchie . His talents for description and imagery . His other poems examined . An anonymous Scotch poem , never printed , called Duncane Laider . Its ...
... poets continued . Sir David Lyndefay . His chief perfor- mances the Dreme , and Monarchie . His talents for description and imagery . His other poems examined . An anonymous Scotch poem , never printed , called Duncane Laider . Its ...
עמוד 3
... poem , in eight books , first printed by Caxton , in the year 1483. It was written at the command of Richard the second ; who meeting our poet Gower rowing on the Thames near London , invited him into the royal barge , and after much ...
... poem , in eight books , first printed by Caxton , in the year 1483. It was written at the command of Richard the second ; who meeting our poet Gower rowing on the Thames near London , invited him into the royal barge , and after much ...
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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
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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.