The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, Modernized ...Whittaker & Company, 1841 - 331 oldal |
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xvi. oldal
... close to us . An ancient Briton , with his long rough hair and painted body , laughing and singing half naked under a tree , may be coarse , yet innocent of all intention to offend ; but if the ima- gination , ( absorbing the ...
... close to us . An ancient Briton , with his long rough hair and painted body , laughing and singing half naked under a tree , may be coarse , yet innocent of all intention to offend ; but if the ima- gination , ( absorbing the ...
xviii. oldal
... close , with red stockings , and " St. Paul's windows carved upon his shoes ; " a kirtle thick with points and tags ; and a " " gay surplice " over all , as " white as is the blossom upon the thorn . " This jolly parish clerk , smitten ...
... close , with red stockings , and " St. Paul's windows carved upon his shoes ; " a kirtle thick with points and tags ; and a " " gay surplice " over all , as " white as is the blossom upon the thorn . " This jolly parish clerk , smitten ...
xxiv. oldal
... close , where Chaucer shows us the quaint begging rogue , playing his harp among a crowd of admiring auditors , and turn- ing up his eyes , with an attempted expressing of reli- gious enthusiasm through which the humorous sense of his ...
... close , where Chaucer shows us the quaint begging rogue , playing his harp among a crowd of admiring auditors , and turn- ing up his eyes , with an attempted expressing of reli- gious enthusiasm through which the humorous sense of his ...
lxx. oldal
... close resemblance of their musical rhythm to the lines just quoted , even though they are employed in the portraiture of old age ? — Elde was painted , after this , That shorter was , a foot , I wis , Than she was wont in her yonghede ...
... close resemblance of their musical rhythm to the lines just quoted , even though they are employed in the portraiture of old age ? — Elde was painted , after this , That shorter was , a foot , I wis , Than she was wont in her yonghede ...
lxxxix. oldal
... close resemblance to the beautiful prose rhythm in which many parts of the Bible are written . The change which the introduction of this latter rhythm may bring about is likely , as Mr. Darley anticipates , " to entail important ...
... close resemblance to the beautiful prose rhythm in which many parts of the Bible are written . The change which the introduction of this latter rhythm may bring about is likely , as Mr. Darley anticipates , " to entail important ...
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accents alsó Annelida anon Arviragus Aurelius beauty bird bliss brought Canace Canterbury Tales Chaucer cheer clerks Cuckoo dance daughter dear death Demophon distress Dorigen doth Dryden Duke of Lancaster durst English evermore eyes fair flower fresh friends gentle goeth gone grace green grief hand hast hath hear heard heart heroic verse honour horse John of Gaunt king knew knight lady LEIGH HUNT Lord lovers Manciple metre modern never Nightingale noble nought numbers o'er Phoebus poems poet pray PROLOGUE psaltery Queen quoth reader rhyme rhythm Richard le Scrope ride rode ruth sing sister song sooth sorrow soul speak steed story Sumner sweet syllables tale tell Tereus thee Theseus thing Thopas thou thought tongue tree trow truth twas unto versification ween wife wight wise wondrous word worthy
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270. oldal - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
lxix. oldal - There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek — There is n^ttt wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
xiii. oldal - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
xiv. oldal - Anger dared the pallid Fear ; Next stood Hypocrisy, with holy leer ; Soft smiling, and demurely looking down, But hid the dagger underneath the gown : The assassinating wife, the household fiend, And far the blackest there, the traitor-friend. On t' other side there stood Destruction bare ; Unpunish'd Rapine, and a waste of war.
lxxv. oldal - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track; Whilst above the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...
xxxix. oldal - The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata : they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
xv. oldal - Yet could he not his closing eyes withdraw, Though less and less of Emily he saw: So speechless for a little space he lay, Then grasp'd the hand he held, and sigh'd his soul away.
1. oldal - Old Chaucer, like the morning star, To us discovers day from far. His light those mists and clouds dissolv'd Which our dark nation long involv'd ; But he, descending to the shades, Darkness again the age invades...
xxxix. oldal - Tis true I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him, for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine; but this opinion is not worth confuting...
2. oldal - For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers...