Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 - English poetry |
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... cause is not wote I ; Well wotin of this thyngè clerkes That treten of that and othir werkes , For I of none opinion 35 N'ill as now makin mencion , But onely that the holy rode Tournin us every dreme to gode , For nevir fithin I was ...
... cause is not wote I ; Well wotin of this thyngè clerkes That treten of that and othir werkes , For I of none opinion 35 N'ill as now makin mencion , But onely that the holy rode Tournin us every dreme to gode , For nevir fithin I was ...
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... cause ywas That the first lovid him , álas ! 370 And first counfailid her thereto ; But what whan this was faied and do She rofte her felvin to the herte , And deide thorough the woundis fmerte : But all the manir how fhe deide , 375 ...
... cause ywas That the first lovid him , álas ! 370 And first counfailid her thereto ; But what whan this was faied and do She rofte her felvin to the herte , And deide thorough the woundis fmerte : But all the manir how fhe deide , 375 ...
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... cause he hath me fent To the ; herkin nowe by thy trouthe : Certaine he hath of the grete routhe , For that thou hafte fo truly So long fervid ententifly His blindè nephewe Cupido And the faire quene Venus alfo Withoutin guerdon evir ...
... cause he hath me fent To the ; herkin nowe by thy trouthe : Certaine he hath of the grete routhe , For that thou hafte fo truly So long fervid ententifly His blindè nephewe Cupido And the faire quene Venus alfo Withoutin guerdon evir ...
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... cause thou maist wel se That every rivir to the se Enclinid is to go by kynde , 240 And by these skillis as I finde Have fishes dwellinge in flode and se , And treis eke on the erthe be : Thus every thinge by his refon Hath his owne ...
... cause thou maist wel se That every rivir to the se Enclinid is to go by kynde , 240 And by these skillis as I finde Have fishes dwellinge in flode and se , And treis eke on the erthe be : Thus every thinge by his refon Hath his owne ...
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... cause maie be . For that me lifte it not , ( quod fhe . ) No wight fhall fpeke of you iwis Ne gode ne harme , ne that ne this . And with that worde fhe gan to call Her meffengir that was in hall , And bad that he should fast ygone ...
... cause maie be . For that me lifte it not , ( quod fhe . ) No wight fhall fpeke of you iwis Ne gode ne harme , ne that ne this . And with that worde fhe gan to call Her meffengir that was in hall , And bad that he should fast ygone ...
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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...