On Early English Pronunciation: With Especial Reference to Chaucer, in Opposition to the Views Maintained by Mr. A. J. Ellis in His Work "On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer."

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Asher & Company, 1874 - 151 pàgines

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Pàgina 138 - With lokkes crulle as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe...
Pàgina 132 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.
Pàgina 136 - No cristen man so ofte of his degree. 55 In Gernade at the seege eek hadde he be Of Algezir, and riden in Belmarye. At Lyeys was he, and at Satalye, Whan they were wonne ; and in the Crete See At many a noble aryve hadde he be.
Pàgina 146 - Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes, And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood; Thanne wolde he speke and crie as he were wood.
Pàgina 134 - Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre, And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre, As wel in cristendom as in hethenesse, And evere honoured for his worthynesse; so At Alisaundre he was whan it was wonne. Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne...
Pàgina 134 - Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche...
Pàgina 124 - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus...
Pàgina 136 - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye Agayn another hethen in Turkye. And everemoore he hadde a sovereyn prys; And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.
Pàgina 124 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Pàgina 126 - Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye...

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