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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Página viii
... reason , I have been very concife , I have yet faid enough to direct the critical antiquarian to this collection , in case he should find a fimilar tale occurring in any of our old poets . I have omitted the mention of a very few ...
... reason , I have been very concife , I have yet faid enough to direct the critical antiquarian to this collection , in case he should find a fimilar tale occurring in any of our old poets . I have omitted the mention of a very few ...
Página xvii
... reason that the preachers left off quoting Efop's fables in their fermons , and the stage ceased to instruct the people in the scripture - history by the representation of the MYSTERIES . The advocates of the pa- pal communion do not ...
... reason that the preachers left off quoting Efop's fables in their fermons , and the stage ceased to instruct the people in the scripture - history by the representation of the MYSTERIES . The advocates of the pa- pal communion do not ...
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... reason we are so much pleafed with the reading romances and the fictions of the " poets , but that here , as Ariftotle fays , things are fet down as they should be ; but in the true history hitherto of the world , things are recorded ...
... reason we are so much pleafed with the reading romances and the fictions of the " poets , but that here , as Ariftotle fays , things are fet down as they should be ; but in the true history hitherto of the world , things are recorded ...
Página xcii
... reasons for that fuppofition , I fhould be induced to think , that it might have been intended as a book of ftories for the purpose of preachers . I have already given instances , that it was antiently fashionable for preachers to ...
... reasons for that fuppofition , I fhould be induced to think , that it might have been intended as a book of ftories for the purpose of preachers . I have already given instances , that it was antiently fashionable for preachers to ...
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... , and of the highest expectations . This young nobleman , who also bore other titles and honours , was the child of Henry's affection : not fo much on account of his hopeful abilities , as for a reason infinuated by his 2 THE HISTORY OF.
... , and of the highest expectations . This young nobleman , who also bore other titles and honours , was the child of Henry's affection : not fo much on account of his hopeful abilities , as for a reason infinuated by his 2 THE HISTORY OF.
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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...