Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 |
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... evir , quha reidis right Thou beiris of Makers the triumphs royall , The frefche enamilt termes celeftiall : This mater couth half illuminit full bricht , Was thou nocht , of our Inglis all the light , Surmounting every toung ...
... evir , quha reidis right Thou beiris of Makers the triumphs royall , The frefche enamilt termes celeftiall : This mater couth half illuminit full bricht , Was thou nocht , of our Inglis all the light , Surmounting every toung ...
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... evir fhall , So give ' hem joyè that it here Of all that thei dremin to yere , And for to ftandin all in grace Of ther lovis , or in what place That ' hem were levift for to ftonde , And shelde ' hem from poverte ' and fhonde , And from ...
... evir fhall , So give ' hem joyè that it here Of all that thei dremin to yere , And for to ftandin all in grace Of ther lovis , or in what place That ' hem were levift for to ftonde , And shelde ' hem from poverte ' and fhonde , And from ...
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... queint manir of figuris Of golde worke then I fawe evir : But certainly I n'ift nevir Where that it was , but well wist I It was of Venus redily 130 This temple , for in purtreiture I fawe anone right Bake I. THE HOUSE OF FAME .
... queint manir of figuris Of golde worke then I fawe evir : But certainly I n'ift nevir Where that it was , but well wist I It was of Venus redily 130 This temple , for in purtreiture I fawe anone right Bake I. THE HOUSE OF FAME .
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... evir I had wit , Agilte you in thought ne in dede . O ! have ye men foche godelihede In fpeche , and ner a dele of trouthe ? Alas , alas ! that er had routhe 360 Any woman on a false man ! Now I fe well and tellin can We wretchid women ...
... evir I had wit , Agilte you in thought ne in dede . O ! have ye men foche godelihede In fpeche , and ner a dele of trouthe ? Alas , alas ! that er had routhe 360 Any woman on a false man ! Now I fe well and tellin can We wretchid women ...
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... evir he could fwere , That fo fhe favid hym his life He would takin her to his wife , For fhe defirid nothinge elles In certain , as the boke us telles . But for to ' excufe this Æneas Fulliche of all his grete trefpas The boke fayith ...
... evir he could fwere , That fo fhe favid hym his life He would takin her to his wife , For fhe defirid nothinge elles In certain , as the boke us telles . But for to ' excufe this Æneas Fulliche of all his grete trefpas The boke fayith ...
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Seite 194 - 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.
Seite 193 - 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...
Seite 194 - 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.
Seite 193 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Seite 193 - 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...
Seite 188 - 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...
Seite 188 - The Truth is, it has been hitherto a little too carelessly handled, and, I think, has had less labor spent about its 1 5 polishing then it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be willing to read twice but some of his Poetry, But then it began to raise it self a little, and to sound tolerably well.
Seite 192 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Seite 17 - Saxon original, is an abbreviation of AF, or OF; of AT ; of ON, or IN; and often only a corruption of the prepositive particle GE, or Y.
Seite 177 - God then to blind the eyes of them, " for the more commodity of his people, to the intent " that through the reading of his treatises, some fruit " might redound thereof to his church, as no doubt it " did to many. As also I am partly informed of cer...