Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 |
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... Whose bright bemis the cloudis maie not hide ! O waie of life to ' hem that go or ride , Haven aftir tempeft , furist up to rive , On me have mercie for thy joyis five ! O rightfull rule ! o bote of holineffe ! And lightsome line of ...
... Whose bright bemis the cloudis maie not hide ! O waie of life to ' hem that go or ride , Haven aftir tempeft , furist up to rive , On me have mercie for thy joyis five ! O rightfull rule ! o bote of holineffe ! And lightsome line of ...
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... Whose martial powir there was no man that coud with- For thorough the wide worldè there was not yfound [ hande , her pere , The famous Duke of Athenis , Thefeus , fhe had in And she forely chastifid him and conquirid his lande ; The ...
... Whose martial powir there was no man that coud with- For thorough the wide worldè there was not yfound [ hande , her pere , The famous Duke of Athenis , Thefeus , fhe had in And she forely chastifid him and conquirid his lande ; The ...
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... Whose foule in hafte unto his blis ybryng That first her formid to be a creture , For were the well of me I did no cure . Explicit the diferivyng of a faire ladie . An other balade . O Moffie quince ! yhangyng by your stalke , The ...
... Whose foule in hafte unto his blis ybryng That first her formid to be a creture , For were the well of me I did no cure . Explicit the diferivyng of a faire ladie . An other balade . O Moffie quince ! yhangyng by your stalke , The ...
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... whose faith thou haft be gide , Ley to this olde fore a newè salve , And do the werre away what so betide ; Purchacin pece , and set it by thy fyde , And fuffre nat thy peple be devoured , 30 fhal thy name er aftir stand honoured . If ...
... whose faith thou haft be gide , Ley to this olde fore a newè salve , And do the werre away what so betide ; Purchacin pece , and set it by thy fyde , And fuffre nat thy peple be devoured , 30 fhal thy name er aftir stand honoured . If ...
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... whose affent The world'is pece may nevir wel be tried , Ne love be kept , ne lawe be justified . The Jewis with the Painims haddin werre , But they among ' hemfelfe ftode er in pece , Why shouldin than our pece ftande out of erre ...
... whose affent The world'is pece may nevir wel be tried , Ne love be kept , ne lawe be justified . The Jewis with the Painims haddin werre , But they among ' hemfelfe ftode er in pece , Why shouldin than our pece ftande out of erre ...
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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...