Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 |
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... vertue in the be ; To tellin al my dreme aright Nowe kithe thy engin and thy might . This egle ' , of whiche I have you tolde , That with fethirs fhone al of golde , Whiche that fo hie began to fore ,. I gan beholdin more and more To ...
... vertue in the be ; To tellin al my dreme aright Nowe kithe thy engin and thy might . This egle ' , of whiche I have you tolde , That with fethirs fhone al of golde , Whiche that fo hie began to fore ,. I gan beholdin more and more To ...
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... praise his arte , Althoughe thou haddist nevir parte ; Wherfore , fo wifly God me bleffe , Jovis yhalte it grete humblesse 100 IC5 110 115 120 And vertue eke that thou wilt make Anight ful oft Cij Boke 11 . 27 THE HOUSE OF FAME .
... praise his arte , Althoughe thou haddist nevir parte ; Wherfore , fo wifly God me bleffe , Jovis yhalte it grete humblesse 100 IC5 110 115 120 And vertue eke that thou wilt make Anight ful oft Cij Boke 11 . 27 THE HOUSE OF FAME .
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... vertue eke that thou wilt make Anight ful oft thine hed to ake In thy fludye , so thou ywritest , And evirmore of love enditest , In honour of him and praifinges , And in his folkis fourthiringes , And in ther matir al devisest , 125 ...
... vertue eke that thou wilt make Anight ful oft thine hed to ake In thy fludye , so thou ywritest , And evirmore of love enditest , In honour of him and praifinges , And in his folkis fourthiringes , And in ther matir al devisest , 125 ...
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... vertue and ther thewis , Thought I , as grete Fame have fhrewis ( Though it be nought ) for fhrewdèneffe As gode folke havin for godeneffe , And fithen I may not have that one That othir n'yl I not forgone , As for to gettin a Fame here ...
... vertue and ther thewis , Thought I , as grete Fame have fhrewis ( Though it be nought ) for fhrewdèneffe As gode folke havin for godeneffe , And fithen I may not have that one That othir n'yl I not forgone , As for to gettin a Fame here ...
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... vertue mofte foverain ! Mothir of mercie ' , our trouble to restrain , 14 2L 28 Chambir and clofit cleneft of chaftitie , And namid herbrough of the deitie ! 35 42 O clofit , gardin , voide of wedis wicke Hij CERTAINE BALADES , 87 5 ° c .
... vertue mofte foverain ! Mothir of mercie ' , our trouble to restrain , 14 2L 28 Chambir and clofit cleneft of chaftitie , And namid herbrough of the deitie ! 35 42 O clofit , gardin , voide of wedis wicke Hij CERTAINE BALADES , 87 5 ° c .
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Æneas aftir alfo alſo alway deme amis anone balade beſt boke callid Cange Canterbury Tales cauſe Chaucer Chrift clere Conf Cotgrave deth doth doublenes doune drede dreme Du Cange eche Engliſh erft evir faid faie faine falfe fame fawe fayid feems felf fene fenfe fhal fhall fhould fignifies firſt foche folke fome fone fothe fuppofe Gloff gode govirnaunce grace grete hath herte Houſe ladie Lampedo laſt lefe loke lovirs maie mede moche moft moſt myne neut nevir orig othir Ovide paffage Parv pece perfons poete prep pron Quene quod fhe rede refon remembraunce right wel ſhe tellin thefe ther theſe thine thing thou tonge wol alway tranflation ufed unto uſed vertue werre whan Wherfore wife withoutin wol alway deme woll wollin wondir word yeve
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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...