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, Volumen1E. Moxon, 1844 |
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... express both names in MS . ) Aulaff being evidently the genuine northern name Olaff , or Olave . Lat . Olaus . In the old Romance of " Horn - Childe " ( see Vol . iii . p . 22 ) , the name of the king his father is Allof , which is ...
... express both names in MS . ) Aulaff being evidently the genuine northern name Olaff , or Olave . Lat . Olaus . In the old Romance of " Horn - Childe " ( see Vol . iii . p . 22 ) , the name of the king his father is Allof , which is ...
Página xl
... express regulation in A. D. 1315 ( Y ) . Notwithstanding which , an incident is recorded in the ensuing year , which shows that Minstrels still retained the liberty of entering at will into the royal presence , and had something ...
... express regulation in A. D. 1315 ( Y ) . Notwithstanding which , an incident is recorded in the ensuing year , which shows that Minstrels still retained the liberty of entering at will into the royal presence , and had something ...
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... express order was given for his Minstrels fifteen in number to at- tend him and eighteen are afterwards mentioned , to each of whom he allowed xii . d . a day , when that sum must have been of more than ten times the value it is at ...
... express order was given for his Minstrels fifteen in number to at- tend him and eighteen are afterwards mentioned , to each of whom he allowed xii . d . a day , when that sum must have been of more than ten times the value it is at ...
Página liii
... express a Workman or Artificer ( still called in Languedoc , Ministral ) as if these men were styled Artificers or Performers by way of excellence [ Vid . Diction . Etym . ] But the origin of the name is given perhaps more truly by Du ...
... express a Workman or Artificer ( still called in Languedoc , Ministral ) as if these men were styled Artificers or Performers by way of excellence [ Vid . Diction . Etym . ] But the origin of the name is given perhaps more truly by Du ...
Página lv
... express a Minstrel in Latin , so frequently as Mimus , Histrio , Joculator , or some other word that implies gesture . Hence it might be inferred , that the Minstrels set off their songs with all the arts of gesticulation , & c . or ...
... express a Minstrel in Latin , so frequently as Mimus , Histrio , Joculator , or some other word that implies gesture . Hence it might be inferred , that the Minstrels set off their songs with all the arts of gesticulation , & c . or ...
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Página 209 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against Fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 173 - The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle...
Página 173 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Página 192 - Hadst thou been fond, he had been false, And left thee sad and heavy ; For young men ever were fickle found, Since summer trees were leafy.
Página 174 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Página ii - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Página 57 - The king has written a braid letter. And signd it wi his hand, And sent it to Sir Patrick Spence, Was walking on the sand. The first line that Sir Patrick red, A loud lauch lauched he; The next line that Sir Patrick red, "O what is this has don this deid, This ill deid don to me, To send me out this time o' the yeir, To sail upon the se!
Página 209 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
Página 253 - Solitude, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep : Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble wastes survey." observing,
Página 191 - Now Christ thee save, thou reverend friar, I pray thee tell to me, If ever at yon holy shrine My true love thou didst see. And how should I know your true love, From many another one ? O by his cockle hat, and staff, And by his sandal shoone.