Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 |
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122. oldal
... King Of Perfia and of Media , his hed in blode lying ; [ ftid , Thou baddist him to drinkin of the blode he hadthur- And xxii . M. of his hofte there were distreffid . Ladie Lampedo . 42 The famous loude trumpè ymade of gold yforgid fo ...
... King Of Perfia and of Media , his hed in blode lying ; [ ftid , Thou baddist him to drinkin of the blode he hadthur- And xxii . M. of his hofte there were distreffid . Ladie Lampedo . 42 The famous loude trumpè ymade of gold yforgid fo ...
123. oldal
... King of honor , She flue Ethiop , and conquirid Armenie and Inde , 5 5 In which non entrid but Alexander and fhe as I finde . Ladie Menalippe . Also the ladie Menalippe , thy fistir so dere , [ stand , Whose martial powir there was no ...
... King of honor , She flue Ethiop , and conquirid Armenie and Inde , 5 5 In which non entrid but Alexander and fhe as I finde . Ladie Menalippe . Also the ladie Menalippe , thy fistir so dere , [ stand , Whose martial powir there was no ...
138. oldal
... , So ofte adaye I mote thy werke renew It to correcte and eke to rubbe and scrape , And al is thorow thy negligence and rape . End of Chaucer's Works . 7 John Gower unto the noble King Henry IV . Noble $ 38 CERTAINE BALADES , & c .
... , So ofte adaye I mote thy werke renew It to correcte and eke to rubbe and scrape , And al is thorow thy negligence and rape . End of Chaucer's Works . 7 John Gower unto the noble King Henry IV . Noble $ 38 CERTAINE BALADES , & c .
139. oldal
... King Henry IV . Noble worthie Kyng Henrie the Ferth ! In whom the gladdè fortune is befall The peple to governe here upon yerth , God hath the chosen in comfort of us all ; The worship of this land , which was doun fal , Now ftant ...
... King Henry IV . Noble worthie Kyng Henrie the Ferth ! In whom the gladdè fortune is befall The peple to governe here upon yerth , God hath the chosen in comfort of us all ; The worship of this land , which was doun fal , Now ftant ...
140. oldal
... King Salomon , whiche had at his afkyng Of God what thing hym was levift to crave , He chafe wifedome to the right govirnyng Of Godis folke , the whiche he wouldin fave , And as he chafe , it fill hym for to have For through his wit ...
... King Salomon , whiche had at his afkyng Of God what thing hym was levift to crave , He chafe wifedome to the right govirnyng Of Godis folke , the whiche he wouldin fave , And as he chafe , it fill hym for to have For through his wit ...
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133. oldal - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only.
133. oldal - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
133. 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...
133. oldal - And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the vertuous Ring and Glass, And of the wondrous Hors of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride...
133. oldal - 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.
133. oldal - Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but 'tis like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus...
133. 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...
121. oldal - Realme much alteration both of our langage and lawes, and there withall a certain martiall barbarousnes, whereby the study of all good learning was so much decayd, as long time after no man or very few entended to write in any laudable science : so as beyond that time there is litle or nothing worth commendation to be founde written in this arte. And those of the first age were Chaucer and Gower both of them as I suppose Knightes.
113. oldal - To sette an ende of al his werke, As he whiche is myn owne clerke, Do make his Testament of Love, As thou hast done thy shrift above, So that my courte yt may recorde.
121. oldal - ... at all. Some that make Chaucer in English and Petrarch in Italian, their Gods in verses, and yet be not able to make trew difference, what is a fault, and what is a iust prayse, in those two worthie wittes, will moch mislike this my writyng.