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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... probably made from defective copies , or the imperfect recitation of illiterate singers ; so that a considerable portion of the song or narrative is sometimes omitted ; and miserable trash or nonsense not unfrequently in- troduced into ...
... probably made from defective copies , or the imperfect recitation of illiterate singers ; so that a considerable portion of the song or narrative is sometimes omitted ; and miserable trash or nonsense not unfrequently in- troduced into ...
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... probably invent a few stanzas on occasion . I have no doubt but most of the old heroic Ballads in this collection were com- posed by this order of men . For although some of the larger metrical Romances might come from the pen of the ...
... probably invent a few stanzas on occasion . I have no doubt but most of the old heroic Ballads in this collection were com- posed by this order of men . For although some of the larger metrical Romances might come from the pen of the ...
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... probably confined to such of their own countrymen as excelled in the Minstrel Arts ; and in the first ages after the Conquest no other songs would be listened to by the great nobility , but such as were composed in their own Norman ...
... probably confined to such of their own countrymen as excelled in the Minstrel Arts ; and in the first ages after the Conquest no other songs would be listened to by the great nobility , but such as were composed in their own Norman ...
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... probably did the one , and some the other : and it would have been wonderful indeed , if men whose peculiar profession it was , and who devoted their time and talents to entertain their hearers with poetical compositions , were ...
... probably did the one , and some the other : and it would have been wonderful indeed , if men whose peculiar profession it was , and who devoted their time and talents to entertain their hearers with poetical compositions , were ...
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... probably about this æra , or soon after , we are to date that remarkable inter- community and exchange of each other's compositions , which we discover to have taken place at some early period between the French and English Minstrels ...
... probably about this æra , or soon after , we are to date that remarkable inter- community and exchange of each other's compositions , which we discover to have taken place at some early period between the French and English Minstrels ...
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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.