The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth CenturyTh. Ewing, 1781 - 470 páginas |
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... style , I observe , that the thirty - fourth chapter of Lydgate's metrical LIFE OF THE VIRGIN MARY is literally repeated in the thirty- fourth chapter of this Translation . This chapter is a digreffion of five or six stanzas in praise ...
... style , I observe , that the thirty - fourth chapter of Lydgate's metrical LIFE OF THE VIRGIN MARY is literally repeated in the thirty- fourth chapter of this Translation . This chapter is a digreffion of five or six stanzas in praise ...
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... style and manner of Lydgate and I believe it to have been one of his early performances ' . CHAP . clxxii . A king of England has two knights , named * Stowe mentions Lydgate's " PIL- GRIMAGE OF THE WORLD by the com- " maundement of the ...
... style and manner of Lydgate and I believe it to have been one of his early performances ' . CHAP . clxxii . A king of England has two knights , named * Stowe mentions Lydgate's " PIL- GRIMAGE OF THE WORLD by the com- " maundement of the ...
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... style , ( whofe eloquence is so highly " extolled by faint Jerome , and whom I , however unworthy , " have tranflated from Latin into French with great labour ' , " at the request of John the most famous king of France , ) . " records ...
... style , ( whofe eloquence is so highly " extolled by faint Jerome , and whom I , however unworthy , " have tranflated from Latin into French with great labour ' , " at the request of John the most famous king of France , ) . " records ...
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... style , and purity of expreffion , may justly be pronounced the first English claffical poet . He unquestionably is the first polite writer of love- verfes in our language . It muft , however , be allowed , that there is a striking ...
... style , and purity of expreffion , may justly be pronounced the first English claffical poet . He unquestionably is the first polite writer of love- verfes in our language . It muft , however , be allowed , that there is a striking ...
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... style and improper represen- tations , fays , that " the king was in a high manner delighted " with his witty jefts " . " It is not perhaps improbable , that Henry was as much pleased with his repartees as his politics . He is re ...
... style and improper represen- tations , fays , that " the king was in a high manner delighted " with his witty jefts " . " It is not perhaps improbable , that Henry was as much pleased with his repartees as his politics . He is re ...
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againſt alfo almoſt alſo antient Baldwyne becauſe beſt CHAP Chaucer church circumſtances comedy Dante doth duke earl edit Edward the fixth Engliſh faid faint fame fatire fays fecond feems feen fene fhall finging firft firſt flain fome fone fong ftanzas ftory fubject fuch fuppofed fupr George Ferrers GESTA ROMANORUM hath haue himſelf hiſtory houſe Ibid John king knight kyng lady laft laſt Latin leaſt Lond lord mafter manufcript MIRROUR moft moſt mufic muſt noght Oxford paffage Petrarch pfalms play poem poet poetry prefent prince profe publiſhed purpoſe quarto queen Elifabeth reafon reign rhyme romance ſay ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſtate ſtill ſtory ſtyle Surrey thai thair thar thefe theſe Thomas thoſe thou tion tranflated uſed verfe verfion verſe Vincent of Beauvais Virgil wele whofe whoſe writer written wyfe Wynkyn de Worde YWAIN Ywayne
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Página xxx - ... Detested wretch !" — but scarce his speech began, When the strange partner seem'd no longer man His youthful face grew more serenely sweet ; His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet ; Fair rounds of radiant points invest his hair ; Celestial...
Página 492 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the- lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Página 82 - Was call'd the merry fiend of Edmonton. If any here make doubt of such a name, In Edmonton yet fresh unto this day, Fix'd in the wall of that old ancient church, His monument remaineth to be seen : His memory yet in the mouths of men, That whilst he liv'd he could deceive the devil.
Página 228 - With reckless hand in grave doth cover it, Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light, but in the ground ylain, In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought, As he had never into the world been brought.
Página 143 - These were festal chansons for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the Puritans.
Página 496 - ... under certain conditions, and for a limited duration of time. It was actually one of the pretended feats of...
Página lxxii - They pretended that he appeared and fought with irresjstible fury, completely armed, and mounted on a stately white horse, in most of their engagements with the Moors ; and because, by his superior prowess in these bloody conflicts, he was supposed to have freed the Spaniards from paying the annual tribute of a hundred Christian virgins to their infidel enemies, they represented him as a professed and powerful champion of distressed damsels. This apotheosis of chivalry in the person of their own...
Página 336 - Our maker therfore at these dayes shall not follow Piers plowman nor Gower nor Lydgate nor yet Chaucer, for their language is now out of vse with vs...
Página 138 - Those seats, whence long excluded, ttiou must mourn : That gate, for ever barr'd to thy return : Wilt thou not then bewail ill-fated love, And hate a banish'd man, condemn'd in woods to rove?
Página 69 - These ladies doth enspire) embraceth all. The Graces in the Muses weed, delite To lead them forth, that men in maze they fall. It...