Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 - English poetry |
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... king of werrè the voyage Ordain and take , as he thereto is holde , To claime and aske his rightfull heritage In al placis whereas it is withholde , But othirwife , if God himselfe would Affirmin love and pece bitwene the kinges Pece is ...
... king of werrè the voyage Ordain and take , as he thereto is holde , To claime and aske his rightfull heritage In al placis whereas it is withholde , But othirwife , if God himselfe would Affirmin love and pece bitwene the kinges Pece is ...
Page 143
... wel about , For evirmore the worfte is for to dout , But if thon mightift parfite pece attaine There fhould ybe no caufè for to plaine . 119 126 133 140 About a king gode counfaile is to preife , Above CERTAINE BALADES , & C . 143.
... wel about , For evirmore the worfte is for to dout , But if thon mightift parfite pece attaine There fhould ybe no caufè for to plaine . 119 126 133 140 About a king gode counfaile is to preife , Above CERTAINE BALADES , & C . 143.
Page 144
... king gode counfaile is to preife , Above al othir thinges most vailable , But yet a king within himselfe shal peise , And seen the thingis that ben refonable , And therupon he shal his wittis stable , Among the men to fettin pece in ...
... king gode counfaile is to preife , Above al othir thinges most vailable , But yet a king within himselfe shal peise , And seen the thingis that ben refonable , And therupon he shal his wittis stable , Among the men to fettin pece in ...
Page 147
... king of hevyn , And if men fhould algatis wexin wrothe The Sarazins , whiche unto Chrift ben lothe , Let men be armid ayenst ' hem to fight , So maye the knight his dede of armis right . 238 238 245 252 Upon iii . pointis ftant Christ's ...
... king of hevyn , And if men fhould algatis wexin wrothe The Sarazins , whiche unto Chrift ben lothe , Let men be armid ayenst ' hem to fight , So maye the knight his dede of armis right . 238 238 245 252 Upon iii . pointis ftant Christ's ...
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... King Henrie's grace That he it is which fhal the pece embrace . My worthy noble prince , and king anoynt ! Whom God hath of his gracè so preserved , Beholde and fe the world upon this point , As for thy part , that Chrift'is pece be ...
... King Henrie's grace That he it is which fhal the pece embrace . My worthy noble prince , and king anoynt ! Whom God hath of his gracè so preserved , Beholde and fe the world upon this point , As for thy part , that Chrift'is pece be ...
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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...