The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, Modernized ...Whittaker & Company, 1841 - 331 oldal |
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xviii. oldal
... sense of them , — " Sometimes he scaramouch'd it all on hie , And harlequin'd it with activity : Betrays the lightness of his empty head , And how he could cut capers * * * This But it is not only the loss of this xviii INTRODUCTION . 1.
... sense of them , — " Sometimes he scaramouch'd it all on hie , And harlequin'd it with activity : Betrays the lightness of his empty head , And how he could cut capers * * * This But it is not only the loss of this xviii INTRODUCTION . 1.
xxiv. oldal
... head , aright , as do the stars upon a frosty night " —the whole of this is lost in the vulgar association of “ little pigs ' eyes , " and " small stars " to match , foisted in by the ingenious Mr. Betterton . In Mr. Ogle's labours ...
... head , aright , as do the stars upon a frosty night " —the whole of this is lost in the vulgar association of “ little pigs ' eyes , " and " small stars " to match , foisted in by the ingenious Mr. Betterton . In Mr. Ogle's labours ...
xxviii. oldal
... head of his list of " Imitations of English Poets . " It is an imitation of those passages which we should only regard as the rank offal of a great feast in the olden time . The better taste and feeling of Pope should have imitated the ...
... head of his list of " Imitations of English Poets . " It is an imitation of those passages which we should only regard as the rank offal of a great feast in the olden time . The better taste and feeling of Pope should have imitated the ...
lxix. oldal
... head upon her breast , & c . Thus , we find introduced in the groundwork of the octo - syllabic measure , the most musical variations . The foregoing illustration contains ten lines of the regular eight syllables , four lines of nine ...
... head upon her breast , & c . Thus , we find introduced in the groundwork of the octo - syllabic measure , the most musical variations . The foregoing illustration contains ten lines of the regular eight syllables , four lines of nine ...
lxxi. oldal
... head , for hoar , was white as flour . I wis great qualme ne were it , none , Ne sinne , although her life were gone . All waxen was her body unwelde , And drie , and dwinéd , all for elde : A foule forwelked * thing was she That whilom ...
... head , for hoar , was white as flour . I wis great qualme ne were it , none , Ne sinne , although her life were gone . All waxen was her body unwelde , And drie , and dwinéd , all for elde : A foule forwelked * thing was she That whilom ...
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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 Dorigen doth Dryden Duke of Lancaster English evermore eyes fair flower fresh friends gentle goeth gone grace green grief hand hast hath hear heart heroic verse honour horse John of Gaunt king knew knight lady LEIGH HUNT Lord lovers Manciple metre modern never nigh Nightingale noble nought numbers o'er Phoebus poems poet pray Prologue psaltery Queen quoth reader rhyme rhythm Richard le Scrope ride rode ruth Simkin 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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lxvii. oldal - There is not 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.
260. 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...
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.
lxxiii. 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 - 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...
lxix. oldal - With music strong and saintly song To wander through the forest bare, Lest aught unholy loiter there.' Thus Bracy said: the Baron, the while, Half-listening heard him with a smile; Then...
141. oldal - Quest' arder mio, di che vi cal sì poco, E i vostri onori in mie rime diffusi, Ne porian infiammar fors...
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.
6. oldal - With lockes curled as they were laid in press ; Of twenty years of age he was, I guess...