Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language,Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 1334 Seiten |
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... French . - Minstrels . - Sources of Romance . - Adam Davie - Specimens of his Life of Alexander . - Robert Baston . CHAP VI . REIGN OF EDWARD III . 124 Richard Rolle , the Hermit of Hampole . - Laurence Minot . - Pierce Ploughman's ...
... French . - Minstrels . - Sources of Romance . - Adam Davie - Specimens of his Life of Alexander . - Robert Baston . CHAP VI . REIGN OF EDWARD III . 124 Richard Rolle , the Hermit of Hampole . - Laurence Minot . - Pierce Ploughman's ...
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... French : but the proportion in which these elements were combined , at any period of our history , cannot be very easily ascertained . Hickes is of opinion , that no less than nine - tenths of our present English words are of Saxon ...
... French : but the proportion in which these elements were combined , at any period of our history , cannot be very easily ascertained . Hickes is of opinion , that no less than nine - tenths of our present English words are of Saxon ...
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... French . " These opinions , indeed , relate to such different periods , that they are not , strictly speaking , capable of being opposed to each other ; but it is nearly evident that both are exaggerated : Dr Hickes having probably ...
... French . " These opinions , indeed , relate to such different periods , that they are not , strictly speaking , capable of being opposed to each other ; but it is nearly evident that both are exaggerated : Dr Hickes having probably ...
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... French still farther , so as to use doing make ; done make ; & c . an employ- ment of the verb which I do not recollect to have seen in English . It is unnecessary to pursue these remarks any farther , because the reader will find , in ...
... French still farther , so as to use doing make ; done make ; & c . an employ- ment of the verb which I do not recollect to have seen in English . It is unnecessary to pursue these remarks any farther , because the reader will find , in ...
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... French or Latin alphabet was already familiar to the Sax- ons , who had adopted many of its letters , on ac- count of their superior beauty , as early as the time of Alfred . It has been observed by those writers who have particularly ...
... French or Latin alphabet was already familiar to the Sax- ons , who had adopted many of its letters , on ac- count of their superior beauty , as early as the time of Alfred . It has been observed by those writers who have particularly ...
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Seite 324 - Now have we many chimnies; and yet out tender**** complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quacke or pose, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted.
Seite 279 - His muse was of universal access; and he was not only a poet of his monastery, but of the world in general. If a disguising was intended by the company of goldsmiths, a mask before his majesty at Eltham, a maygame for the sheriffs and aldermen of London, a mumming before the lord mayor, a procession of pageants from the creation for the festival of Corpus...
Seite 326 - ... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town...
Seite 303 - As for the time (though I of mirthis food Might have no more) to look it did me good.
Seite 331 - Rushes green!" another gan greet; One bade me buy a hood to cover my head, But for want of Money I might not be sped, Then I hied me into East Cheap; One cries "Ribs of beef," and many a pie; Pewter pots they clattered on a heap, There was harp, pipe, and minstrelsie. "Yea, by cock!
Seite 208 - Gower will find smooth numbers and easy rhymes, of which Chaucer is supposed to have been the inventor, and the French words, whether good or bad, of which Chaucer is charged as the importer. Some innovations he might probably make, like others, in the infancy of our poetry, which the paucity of books does not allow us to discover with particular exactness; but the works of Gower...
Seite 306 - And in my head I drew right hastily; And eft-soones I lent it forth again : And saw her walk that very womanly. With no wight mo'° but only women twain.
Seite 215 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 323 - Mary's days to wonder, but chiefly when they saw what large diet was used in many of these so homely cottages; insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner — "These English (quoth he) have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king.
Seite 331 - I saw where hung mine owne hood, That I had lost among the throng ; To buy my own hood I thought it wrong : I knew it, well as I did my creed ; But, for lack of money, I could not speed. The taverner took me by the sleeve,