Bell's Edition, 1-2. kötetJ. Bell, 1782 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 47 találatból.
xlix. oldal
... tell thee all . -25th October 1400 . Of cruel cares the certain cure is death . N. Erigham placed thefe , in the name of the Mufes , at his own expense , 1555 . About the ledge of the tomb we are told the following verfes were written ...
... tell thee all . -25th October 1400 . Of cruel cares the certain cure is death . N. Erigham placed thefe , in the name of the Mufes , at his own expense , 1555 . About the ledge of the tomb we are told the following verfes were written ...
liv. oldal
... tell twofto- ries , one going , the other coming back , and that whoever in the judgment of the company fhould fucceed beftin this art of tale - telling , by way of recompenfe , at their return to his inn , thould be entitied to a good ...
... tell twofto- ries , one going , the other coming back , and that whoever in the judgment of the company fhould fucceed beftin this art of tale - telling , by way of recompenfe , at their return to his inn , thould be entitied to a good ...
lv. oldal
... telling , are fo fuited to their " different educations , humeurs , and callings , that each of them " would be improper in any other mouth . Even the grave and " ferious characters are diftinguithed by their feveral forts of " gravity ...
... telling , are fo fuited to their " different educations , humeurs , and callings , that each of them " would be improper in any other mouth . Even the grave and " ferious characters are diftinguithed by their feveral forts of " gravity ...
lvi. oldal
... telling , though profe " allows more liberty of thought , and the expreffion is more ' eafy when unconfined by numbers . Our countryman car- " rics weight , and yet wins the race at difadvantage . " 66 tion alone makes it reasonable ...
... telling , though profe " allows more liberty of thought , and the expreffion is more ' eafy when unconfined by numbers . Our countryman car- " rics weight , and yet wins the race at difadvantage . " 66 tion alone makes it reasonable ...
lxvii. oldal
... tell us very gravely that he was first at Cambridge , and afterwards removed from thence to complete his ftudies at Oxford . 1 It were to be wished that Mr. Speght had given us the date of that record in the Inner Temple ( which he fays ...
... tell us very gravely that he was first at Cambridge , and afterwards removed from thence to complete his ftudies at Oxford . 1 It were to be wished that Mr. Speght had given us the date of that record in the Inner Temple ( which he fays ...
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xxv. oldal - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace...
ccxxxvi. oldal - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly.
ccxix. oldal - A KNIGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he loved chivalrye, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
3. oldal - The yelding of his seed, and of his grain. His lordes shepe, his nete, and his deirie, His swine, his hors, his store, and his pultrie, Were holly in this reves governing, And by his covenant yave he rekening, Sin that his lord was twenty yere of age; Ther coude no man bring him in arerage. Ther n'as baillif, ne herde, ne other hine, That he ne knew his sleight and his covine: They were adradde of him, as of the deth. His wonning was ful fayre upon an heth, With grene trees yshadewed was his place.
cclii. oldal - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones, Ful bigge he was of braun, and eke of bones; That proved wel, for over all ther he came, At wrastling he wold bere away the ram. He was short shuldered brode, a thikke gnarre, Ther n'as no dore, that he n'olde heve of barre, Or breke it at a renning with his hede.
28. oldal - For which thou art ybounden as a knight To helpen me, if it lie in thy might, Or elles art thou false I dare well say'n.
54. oldal - And they him sware his axing fayr and wel, And him of lordship and of mercie praid, And he hem granted grace, and thus he said : To speke of real linage and richesse, Though that she were a quene or a...
5. oldal - Than wolde he speke, and crie as he were wood. And whan that he wel dronken had the win, Than wold he speken no word but Latin.
ccxxxvi. oldal - Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
42. oldal - Theseus, his squyer principal, 640 is risen, and loketh on the myrie day. And, for to doon his observaunce to May, Remembring on the poynt of his desyr, He on a courser...