Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, المجلد 1H. Washbourne, 1845 |
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... thou be , or elles sung , That thou be understond , God I beseech ! " Troilus and Cress . , end of book v . It was easier to prefer a prayer , than to suggest any human means of accomplishing the object of his wishes . The veil which ...
... thou be , or elles sung , That thou be understond , God I beseech ! " Troilus and Cress . , end of book v . It was easier to prefer a prayer , than to suggest any human means of accomplishing the object of his wishes . The veil which ...
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... THOU- LOUSE , to have flourished in 1071 and 1092 , so that the only known poet confessedly anterior to the reign of William the Conqueror , is THIBAUT DE VERNON , Canon of Rouen , who translated from Latin into French verse the lives ...
... THOU- LOUSE , to have flourished in 1071 and 1092 , so that the only known poet confessedly anterior to the reign of William the Conqueror , is THIBAUT DE VERNON , Canon of Rouen , who translated from Latin into French verse the lives ...
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... thou cuckoo ! 2 Ne swick thou never now . The first poet who occurs in the beginning of the fourteenth century is ROBERT MANNYNG , commonly called ROBErt de Brunne . He was , as far as we know , merely a translator . His first work ...
... thou cuckoo ! 2 Ne swick thou never now . The first poet who occurs in the beginning of the fourteenth century is ROBERT MANNYNG , commonly called ROBErt de Brunne . He was , as far as we know , merely a translator . His first work ...
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... thou thy heal willest , That thou drink no day ere thou dine somewhat . Eat not , I hote thee , ere Hunger thee take 3 And send thee of his sauce to saviour with thy lips : And keep some ' till supper - time , and sit not too long , And ...
... thou thy heal willest , That thou drink no day ere thou dine somewhat . Eat not , I hote thee , ere Hunger thee take 3 And send thee of his sauce to saviour with thy lips : And keep some ' till supper - time , and sit not too long , And ...
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... thou wilt , yet well be thou ever ! For this is a lovely lesson , Lord it thee for - yield ! Bihote God ! ( quod Hunger ) hence ne will I wend Till I have dined by this day , and drunken both . my folk . I have no penny , ( quod Pierce ) ...
... thou wilt , yet well be thou ever ! For this is a lovely lesson , Lord it thee for - yield ! Bihote God ! ( quod Hunger ) hence ne will I wend Till I have dined by this day , and drunken both . my folk . I have no penny , ( quod Pierce ) ...
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الصفحة 265 - And proffered me bread, with ale, and wine Ribs of beef, both fat and full fine ; A fair cloth they gan for to spread, But, wanting money, I might not be sped. Then unto London I did me hie, Of all the land it beareth the price ; "Hot peascods!" one began to cry, " Strawberry ripe, and cherries in the rise!
الصفحة 267 - 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,
الصفحة 245 - As for the time (though I of mirthis food Might have no more) to look it did me good.
الصفحة 263 - ... and a good round log under their heads instead of a bolster or pillow. If it were so that our fathers — or the good man of the house had within seven years after his marriage purchased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a stack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town...
الصفحة 265 - I gan me drawn, Where much people I saw for to stand ; One offered me velvet, silk, and lawn, Another he taketh me by the hand, "Here is Paris thread, the finest in the land!
الصفحة 138 - ... we shall probably be of opinion, that his majesty was either totally insensible of our author's poetical talents, or at least had no mind to encourage him in the cultivation or exercise of them.
الصفحة 251 - In her was youth, beauty, with humble port, Bounty, richesse, and womanly feature ; God better knows than my pen can report, Wisdom, largesse ,t estate,! and cunning § sure, In every point so guided her measure, In word, in deed, in shape, in countenance, That nature might no more her child advance.
الصفحة 272 - It shall be covered with velvet red, And cloths of fine gold all about your head ; With damask white and azure blue Well diapered with lilies new.
الصفحة 263 - Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the...
الصفحة 60 - ... to indicate that little more than the substitution of a few French for the present Saxon words, was now necessary, to produce an exact resemblance with that Anglo-Norman, or English, of which we possess a few specimens, supposed to have been written in the early part of the thirteenth century.