Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets; Together with Some Few of Later Date, Volym 2Henry Washbourne and Company, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1857 |
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... editors of Chaucer's works , is now printed for the first time from an ancient MS . in the Pepysian library , that contains many other poems of its venerable author . The versification is of that species which the French call Rondeau ...
... editors of Chaucer's works , is now printed for the first time from an ancient MS . in the Pepysian library , that contains many other poems of its venerable author . The versification is of that species which the French call Rondeau ...
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... Editor was in- formed of an ancient MS . copy preserved in the Museum , [ Harl . MSS . 5396 , ] which appeared to have been trans- cribed in the reign of King Henry VI . , about 1456. This obliging information the Editor owed to the ...
... Editor was in- formed of an ancient MS . copy preserved in the Museum , [ Harl . MSS . 5396 , ] which appeared to have been trans- cribed in the reign of King Henry VI . , about 1456. This obliging information the Editor owed to the ...
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... Emma , this ought to preserve it from oblivion . That we are able to give it in so correct a manner , is owing to the great care and exactness of the accurate editor of the Prolusions , 28 THE NOT - BROWNE MAYD . The Not-browne Mayd.
... Emma , this ought to preserve it from oblivion . That we are able to give it in so correct a manner , is owing to the great care and exactness of the accurate editor of the Prolusions , 28 THE NOT - BROWNE MAYD . The Not-browne Mayd.
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... editor of the Prolusions , 8vo . 1760 ; who has formed the text from two copies found in two different editions of Arnolde's Chronicle , a book supposed to be first printed about 1521. From the copy in the Prolusions the following is ...
... editor of the Prolusions , 8vo . 1760 ; who has formed the text from two copies found in two different editions of Arnolde's Chronicle , a book supposed to be first printed about 1521. From the copy in the Prolusions the following is ...
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... Editor of these volumes has in his ancient folio MS . a poem on the victory of Flodden - field , written in the same numbers , with the same alliterations , and in orthography , phraseology , and style nearly resem- bling the Visions of ...
... Editor of these volumes has in his ancient folio MS . a poem on the victory of Flodden - field , written in the same numbers , with the same alliterations , and in orthography , phraseology , and style nearly resem- bling the Visions of ...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volym 2 Henry Benjamin Wheatley,Thomas Percy Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2017 |
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Sida 369 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Sida 334 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light ; You common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Sida 335 - An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate...
Sida 331 - The first is to tell him there in that stead, With his crowne of golde so fair on his head, Among all his liege-men so noble of birth, To within one penny of what he is worth. " The seconde, to tell him, without any doubt, How soone he may ride this whole world about.
Sida 242 - A Knight of Cales, A Gentleman of Wales, And a Laird of the North Countree ; A Yeoman of Kent, With his yearly rent. Will buy them out all three...
Sida 344 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Sida 271 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Sida 329 - The following is chiefly printed from an ancient black-letter copy to "the tune of Deny down." AN ancient story He tell you anon Of a notable prince, that was called King John ; And he ruled England with maine and with might, For he did great wrong, and maintein'd little right.
Sida 332 - fore our fader the pope. Now welcome, sire abbot, the king he did say, Tis well thou'rt come back to keepe thy day ; For and if thou canst answer my questions three, Thy life and thy living both saved shall bee.