Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 - English poetry |
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... folke to dreme on night ; Or if the foule of propir kinde Be fo perfite as men yfinde , That it wele wote what is to come , 45 And that he warnith all and fome Of everiche of ther avintures By avifions or by figures , But that our ...
... folke to dreme on night ; Or if the foule of propir kinde Be fo perfite as men yfinde , That it wele wote what is to come , 45 And that he warnith all and fome Of everiche of ther avintures By avifions or by figures , But that our ...
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... folke yfinde That in the fe were lefte behinde : And , fhortly of this thyng to pace , She made Æneas fo in grace Of Dido , Quene of that countre , That , fhortly for to tellin , fhe Volume XIII , B 249 1 Became his love , and let hym ...
... folke yfinde That in the fe were lefte behinde : And , fhortly of this thyng to pace , She made Æneas fo in grace Of Dido , Quene of that countre , That , fhortly for to tellin , fhe Volume XIII , B 249 1 Became his love , and let hym ...
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... folke difpifeft , 130 Althoughe thou maiste go in the daunce Of them that him lyft not avaunce ; Wherfore , as I now faide , ywis Jupiter confidrith wel this , And als , beaufire , of othir thinges , That is , that thou hafte no ...
... folke difpifeft , 130 Althoughe thou maiste go in the daunce Of them that him lyft not avaunce ; Wherfore , as I now faide , ywis Jupiter confidrith wel this , And als , beaufire , of othir thinges , That is , that thou hafte no ...
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... folke mo tidingis , Bothe fothfawis and lefingis , And of mo lovis newe begon , 160 165 And longe fervid tyl love is won , 170 And of mo lovirs cafuelly That ben betide , no man wote why , But as a blinde man starteth an hare , And more ...
... folke mo tidingis , Bothe fothfawis and lefingis , And of mo lovis newe begon , 160 165 And longe fervid tyl love is won , 170 And of mo lovirs cafuelly That ben betide , no man wote why , But as a blinde man starteth an hare , And more ...
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... folke that done in erthe ydwell , And comith here in the fame wife As I the herde or this devise , And that here liv'is body n'is In all that House that yondir is 555 That makith al this loudè fare . No , ( answerid he ) by Sainte Clare ...
... folke that done in erthe ydwell , And comith here in the fame wife As I the herde or this devise , And that here liv'is body n'is In all that House that yondir is 555 That makith al this loudè fare . No , ( answerid he ) by Sainte Clare ...
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Page 194 - The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Page 193 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine...
Page 194 - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only.
Page 193 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Page 193 - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace...
Page 188 - And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the vertuous Ring and Glass, And of the wondrous Hors of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride...
Page 188 - The Truth is, it has been hitherto a little too carelessly handled, and, I think, has had less labor spent about its 1 5 polishing then it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be willing to read twice but some of his Poetry, But then it began to raise it self a little, and to sound tolerably well.
Page 192 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Page 17 - Saxon original, is an abbreviation of AF, or OF; of AT ; of ON, or IN; and often only a corruption of the prepositive particle GE, or Y.
Page 177 - God then to blind the eyes of them, " for the more commodity of his people, to the intent " that through the reading of his treatises, some fruit " might redound thereof to his church, as no doubt it " did to many. As also I am partly informed of cer...