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, Volume 11801 |
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... title of these volumes will shew , that they are by no means intended to supersede Mr.Warton's very learned and entertaining , though desultory work , from which they are , in part , abridged ; but rather to serve as [ viii ]
... title of these volumes will shew , that they are by no means intended to supersede Mr.Warton's very learned and entertaining , though desultory work , from which they are , in part , abridged ; but rather to serve as [ viii ]
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... Cotton Library ; and who had the farther complaisance to supply the literal English version , as well as the learned notes with which it is accompanied . CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF POETS FROM WHOSE WORKS EXTRACTS HAVE BEEN [ ix ]
... Cotton Library ; and who had the farther complaisance to supply the literal English version , as well as the learned notes with which it is accompanied . CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF POETS FROM WHOSE WORKS EXTRACTS HAVE BEEN [ ix ]
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... sought . Smiting with lances , The Welch they conquered , The earls harrowed , The earth gotten . ( the land obtained . ) * Thus it is related by the Clerks , the learned . METRICAL VERSION OF THE FOREGOING POEM . The mightiest of [ 31 ]
... sought . Smiting with lances , The Welch they conquered , The earls harrowed , The earth gotten . ( the land obtained . ) * Thus it is related by the Clerks , the learned . METRICAL VERSION OF THE FOREGOING POEM . The mightiest of [ 31 ]
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... learned language an ornament which he admired in his own , than to suppose it was invented by the Italian monks , as a succeda- neum for that regular prosody , the harmony of which had been lost in the corrupt pronunciation of the ...
... learned language an ornament which he admired in his own , than to suppose it was invented by the Italian monks , as a succeda- neum for that regular prosody , the harmony of which had been lost in the corrupt pronunciation of the ...
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... learned men are necessarily debarred , either by distance , or by infirmity , or by the pressure and variety of their occupations , from spending much time in those public reposi- tories of learning , to which the access has indeed been ...
... learned men are necessarily debarred , either by distance , or by infirmity , or by the pressure and variety of their occupations , from spending much time in those public reposi- tories of learning , to which the access has indeed been ...
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Page 314 - 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.
Page 229 - Freedom the zest to pleasure gives— He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want, are all Summ'd up within the name of thrall.
Page 11 - In English, and in writing of our tongue, " So pray I to God that none mis-write thee...
Page 269 - Occleve led the way : and that he is the " first of our writers whose style is clothed with " that perspicuity in which the English phraseology " appears at this day, to an English reader.
Page 42 - IT WAS FROM ENGLAND AND NORMANDY THAT THE FRENCH RECEIVED THE FIRST WORKS WHICH DESERVE TO BE CITED IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
Page 316 - ... 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...
Page 321 - 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,
Page 207 - I 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 a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 344 - Bruce," says an elegant critic, " is evidently the work of a politician as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always employed with judgment ; so that every event is prepared and rendered probable by the means to which it is attributed ; whereas the life of Wallace is a mere romance, in which the hero hews down whole squadrons with his single arm, and is indebted for every victory to his own...
Page 224 - When Alexander our king was dead, That Scotland led in love and lee, ' Away was sons * of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, ofgamyn and glee : Our gold was changed into lead.