The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, Modernized ...Whittaker & Company, 1841 - 331 oldal |
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xx. oldal
... ing such passages ! What would become of the finest things in Spenser and Shakspeare by this process ? And yet Mr. Lipscombe seems to endeavour to keep closer upon the borders of his author than most of the XX INTRODUCTION .
... ing such passages ! What would become of the finest things in Spenser and Shakspeare by this process ? And yet Mr. Lipscombe seems to endeavour to keep closer upon the borders of his author than most of the XX INTRODUCTION .
xxvi. oldal
... thing . " The idea thus presented to the imagination of the busy creature passing from branch to branch , with his tapping inquiry , and curious prying bill , is certainly one of those wonderfully happy thoughts seldom found in any ...
... thing . " The idea thus presented to the imagination of the busy creature passing from branch to branch , with his tapping inquiry , and curious prying bill , is certainly one of those wonderfully happy thoughts seldom found in any ...
xxxiv. oldal
... things bend to her , —not her , as is the custom of our self- love , bend to every thing which happens to be modern . It is possible , that something of a vapour , at least to common eyes , might be thus removed from his glorious face ...
... things bend to her , —not her , as is the custom of our self- love , bend to every thing which happens to be modern . It is possible , that something of a vapour , at least to common eyes , might be thus removed from his glorious face ...
xxxv. oldal
... vol . ix . part 1 , where a modern version , undertaken upon the same principle of restoring the original , is recommended as a desideratum in English literature . 66 above all things in such a narrative , a b 2 INTRODUCTION . XXXV.
... vol . ix . part 1 , where a modern version , undertaken upon the same principle of restoring the original , is recommended as a desideratum in English literature . 66 above all things in such a narrative , a b 2 INTRODUCTION . XXXV.
xxxvi. oldal
... things upon different occasions - and upon the same occasion . Whenever he alludes to a recent event in his narra- tive , he either tells it nearly all over again , or apolo- gizes for not doing so , pleading that there is no need ...
... things upon different occasions - and upon the same occasion . Whenever he alludes to a recent event in his narra- tive , he either tells it nearly all over again , or apolo- gizes for not doing so , pleading that there is no need ...
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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...