The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, Modernized ...Whittaker & Company, 1841 - 331 oldal |
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x. oldal
... rhythm , or totally remodelled . In the attempts , therefore , which have been hitherto made ( with the exception of two of the Tales , modernized by Lord Thurlow and Mr. Wordsworth ) the whole substan- tial materiel of Chaucer has been ...
... rhythm , or totally remodelled . In the attempts , therefore , which have been hitherto made ( with the exception of two of the Tales , modernized by Lord Thurlow and Mr. Wordsworth ) the whole substan- tial materiel of Chaucer has been ...
xxix. oldal
... rhythm of Chaucer . On the latter subject it will be necessary to offer some remarks in the course of the present inquiry . · Concerning the Prioress's Tale , ' with which the public have become acquainted in the works of Mr. Wordsworth ...
... rhythm of Chaucer . On the latter subject it will be necessary to offer some remarks in the course of the present inquiry . · Concerning the Prioress's Tale , ' with which the public have become acquainted in the works of Mr. Wordsworth ...
xxx. oldal
... rhythm . But the public recoiled , as heretofore , from the obsolete dialect . The labours of this amiable author , and the cordial co - operation of his publisher , received no adequate encouragement . Since therefore it appears ...
... rhythm . But the public recoiled , as heretofore , from the obsolete dialect . The labours of this amiable author , and the cordial co - operation of his publisher , received no adequate encouragement . Since therefore it appears ...
xxxii. oldal
... rhythm to the best of the writer's ability . Hence , the spiritual sense of the author is the ruling principle . The advocates of the opposite method argue , that all the substantial material and various rhythm of Chaucer should be ...
... rhythm to the best of the writer's ability . Hence , the spiritual sense of the author is the ruling principle . The advocates of the opposite method argue , that all the substantial material and various rhythm of Chaucer should be ...
xxxvii. oldal
... rhythm are very limited . It is clear that he has a practical knowledge of the rhythm of Chaucer , yet in principle he generally reverts to the pedantries of metre , which require strict regularity in numbers and position of accents ...
... rhythm are very limited . It is clear that he has a practical knowledge of the rhythm of Chaucer , yet in principle he generally reverts to the pedantries of metre , which require strict regularity in numbers and position of accents ...
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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...