Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 - English poetry |
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... . What doift thou here than ? ( quod he . ) ( Quod I ) That wol I tellin the : The caufe why I standin here Is fome new tidinges for to lere , 795 Some newè thing , I ne wot what , Tydingis 2 92 Boke 111 . THE HOUSE OF FAME .
... . What doift thou here than ? ( quod he . ) ( Quod I ) That wol I tellin the : The caufe why I standin here Is fome new tidinges for to lere , 795 Some newè thing , I ne wot what , Tydingis 2 92 Boke 111 . THE HOUSE OF FAME .
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... thing , I ne wot what , Tydingis eythir this or that , Of love , or of foche thingis glade , For certainly he that me made To comin hidir faid to me I fhuldin bothe yhere and fe In this place many wondir thinges , 800 But these ne be no ...
... thing , I ne wot what , Tydingis eythir this or that , Of love , or of foche thingis glade , For certainly he that me made To comin hidir faid to me I fhuldin bothe yhere and fe In this place many wondir thinges , 800 But these ne be no ...
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... Thing which that might your hert'is efe amende ; Have me excufed , my powir is but small ; Natheleffe of right ye ought for to commende My gode will , whichè fainè would entende To doe you fervice , for my fuffifaunce Is wholly to be ...
... Thing which that might your hert'is efe amende ; Have me excufed , my powir is but small ; Natheleffe of right ye ought for to commende My gode will , whichè fainè would entende To doe you fervice , for my fuffifaunce Is wholly to be ...
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... thing as mann'is frele wit purpofeth , All for the best , if that your confcience Not grutche it , but in humble pacience It receve , for God faith withoutin à fable A faithfull herte evir is acceptable . Cautelis whofo ufith gladlie ...
... thing as mann'is frele wit purpofeth , All for the best , if that your confcience Not grutche it , but in humble pacience It receve , for God faith withoutin à fable A faithfull herte evir is acceptable . Cautelis whofo ufith gladlie ...
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... thing procede , Of whiche errour I die almofte for drede ? By words eterne whilom was it yfhape That fro the fifth circle in no manere Ne might of teris nothing doune escape , But now fo wepith Venus in her sphere That with her teris ...
... thing procede , Of whiche errour I die almofte for drede ? By words eterne whilom was it yfhape That fro the fifth circle in no manere Ne might of teris nothing doune escape , But now fo wepith Venus in her sphere That with her teris ...
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Æneas aftir alfo alſo alway deme amis anone balade beſt boke callid Cange Canterbury Tales cauſe Chaucer Chrift clere Conf Cotgrave deth doth doublenes doune drede dreme Du Cange eche Engliſh erft evir faid faie faine falfe fame fawe fayid feems felf fene fenfe fhal fhall fhould fignifies firſt foche folke fome fone fothe fuppofe Gloff gode govirnaunce grace grete hath herte Houſe ladie Lampedo laſt lefe loke lovirs maie mede moche moft moſt myne neut nevir orig othir Ovide paffage Parv pece perfons poete prep pron Quene quod fhe rede refon remembraunce right wel ſhe tellin thefe ther theſe thine thing thou tonge wol alway tranflation ufed unto uſed vertue werre whan Wherfore wife withoutin wol alway deme woll wollin wondir word yeve
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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...