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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... stanza . The 3rd stanza alludes to a remarkable circumstance which happened on the day of the battle of Lewes . After the battle was lost , Richard , king of the Romans , took refuge in a windmill , which he barricadoed , and maintained ...
... stanza . The 3rd stanza alludes to a remarkable circumstance which happened on the day of the battle of Lewes . After the battle was lost , Richard , king of the Romans , took refuge in a windmill , which he barricadoed , and maintained ...
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... , is the opinion of an eminent writer . V. 40 , g'te here . MS . i . e . grant their . Vide Glos . V. 44 , this stanza was omitted in the former editions . See Observations upon the Statutes , & c . 4to RICHARD OF ALMAIGNE . 5.
... , is the opinion of an eminent writer . V. 40 , g'te here . MS . i . e . grant their . Vide Glos . V. 44 , this stanza was omitted in the former editions . See Observations upon the Statutes , & c . 4to RICHARD OF ALMAIGNE . 5.
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... stanza was only given from Bedwell's printed edition ; but it is here copied from the old MS . wherein it has been since found , separated from the rest of the poem by several pages of a money - account , and other hetero- geneous ...
... stanza was only given from Bedwell's printed edition ; but it is here copied from the old MS . wherein it has been since found , separated from the rest of the poem by several pages of a money - account , and other hetero- geneous ...
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... stanza , & c . is imperfect , but the defects are here supplied from a more perfect copy , printed in " Ancient ... stanzas of eight short lines , is written in imitation of a poem of Chaucer's , that will be found in Urry's edit . 1721 ...
... stanza , & c . is imperfect , but the defects are here supplied from a more perfect copy , printed in " Ancient ... stanzas of eight short lines , is written in imitation of a poem of Chaucer's , that will be found in Urry's edit . 1721 ...
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... stanzas to supply and complete the story . It has been suggested to the Editor , that the author of this poem seems to have had in his eye the story of Gun- hilda , who is sometimes called Eleanor , and was married to the Emperor ( here ...
... stanzas to supply and complete the story . It has been suggested to the Editor , that the author of this poem seems to have had in his eye the story of Gun- hilda , who is sometimes called Eleanor , and was married to the Emperor ( here ...
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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.