Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language. By G. Ellis, Volum 11801 |
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Pàgina 178
... therefore , to form an estimate of both , will be to give from one , a subject which has been attempted by the other . Gower's Florent , which he appears to have taken from the Gesta Romanorum , is generally supposed to [ 178 ]
... therefore , to form an estimate of both , will be to give from one , a subject which has been attempted by the other . Gower's Florent , which he appears to have taken from the Gesta Romanorum , is generally supposed to [ 178 ]
Pàgina 179
... Florent he hight . He was a man that mochel1 Of armes he was désirous , Chevalrous , and amorous , might : 2 And , for the fame of worlde's speech , Strange adventures would he seche , 3 He rode the marches all about . And fell a time ...
... Florent he hight . He was a man that mochel1 Of armes he was désirous , Chevalrous , and amorous , might : 2 And , for the fame of worlde's speech , Strange adventures would he seche , 3 He rode the marches all about . And fell a time ...
Pàgina 180
... Florent , but remembrance That they took of his worthiness Of knighthood , and of gentleness , And how he stood of cousinage To th ' emperor , made them assuage , And durst not slayen him for fear . In great disputes on they were Among ...
... Florent , but remembrance That they took of his worthiness Of knighthood , and of gentleness , And how he stood of cousinage To th ' emperor , made them assuage , And durst not slayen him for fear . In great disputes on they were Among ...
Pàgina 181
... Florent , howso thou be to - wyte ? " Of Branchus ' death , men shall respite " As now 3 to take avengement , " Be so thou stand in judgement , Upon certain condition : " That thou , unto a question " Which I shall aske , shalt answere ...
... Florent , howso thou be to - wyte ? " Of Branchus ' death , men shall respite " As now 3 to take avengement , " Be so thou stand in judgement , Upon certain condition : " That thou , unto a question " Which I shall aske , shalt answere ...
Pàgina 182
... Florent , on love it hongeth , " All that to mine asking ' longeth : " What all women most desire " This would I ask and in th ' empire , " Where thou hast most knowledging " Take counsel of this asking . " Florent this thing hath ...
... Florent , on love it hongeth , " All that to mine asking ' longeth : " What all women most desire " This would I ask and in th ' empire , " Where thou hast most knowledging " Take counsel of this asking . " Florent this thing hath ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 213 - HAvE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Pàgina 301 - And sing with us, away ! winter away ! " Come summer, come ! the sweet season and sun ! " Awake, for shame ! that have your heavens won ! " And amorously lift up your headis all ; " Thank love, that list you to his mercy call I
Pàgina 320 - Now have we many chimneys ; and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good-man and his family from the quack or pose, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted.
Pàgina 322 - ... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town...
Pàgina 275 - I am of opinion, that Lydgate made considerable additions to those amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way : and that he is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader.
Pàgina 40 - IT WAS FROM ENGLAND AND NORMANDY THAT THE FRENCH RECEIVED THE FIRST WORKS WHICH DESERVE TO BE CITED IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
Pàgina 323 - As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides.
Pàgina 105 - Thomas, &c. It appears, from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr Douce, of London, containing a French metrical romance of Sir Tristrem, that the work of our Thomas the Rhymer was known, and referred to, by the minstrels of Normandy and Bretagne.
Pàgina 327 - I saw where hung my own6 hood, That I had lost among the throng : To buy my own hood I thought it wrong; I knew it as well as I did my creed; But, for lack of money, I could not speed. The Taverner took me by the sleeve; "Sir," saith he,
Pàgina 316 - Ploughman, have highly extolled this useful body of men, while the French minstrels of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries universally seem to approve the supercilious contempt with which the nobles affected to treat them.