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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... sometimes ex- tremely incorrect and faulty , being in such instances 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 ...
... sometimes ex- tremely incorrect and faulty , being in such instances 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 ...
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... sometimes led to make too great a parade of his authorities . The desire of being accurate has perhaps seduced him into too minute and trifling an exactness ; and in pursuit of information he may have been drawn into many a petty and ...
... sometimes led to make too great a parade of his authorities . The desire of being accurate has perhaps seduced him into too minute and trifling an exactness ; and in pursuit of information he may have been drawn into many a petty and ...
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... sometime composed together . When king Richard heard the song , he knew it was Blondel that sung it : and when Blondel paused at halfe of the song , the king , began the other half and completed it . ' Thus Blondel won knowledge of the ...
... sometime composed together . When king Richard heard the song , he knew it was Blondel that sung it : and when Blondel paused at halfe of the song , the king , began the other half and completed it . ' Thus Blondel won knowledge of the ...
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... sometimes bordering on the insipid , yet often well adapted to the pathetic ; these are generally in the southern dialect , exhibit a more modern phraseo- logy , and are commonly descriptive of more modern manners AN ESSAY ON THE ...
... sometimes bordering on the insipid , yet often well adapted to the pathetic ; these are generally in the southern dialect , exhibit a more modern phraseo- logy , and are commonly descriptive of more modern manners AN ESSAY ON THE ...
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... sometimes used " pro Ministellus , " [ Ibid . ] and an instance is produced which I shall insert at large in the next paragraph . * The Anglo - Saxon and primary English name for this charac- ter was Gleeman " [ see below ; Note ( I ...
... sometimes used " pro Ministellus , " [ Ibid . ] and an instance is produced which I shall insert at large in the next paragraph . * The Anglo - Saxon and primary English name for this charac- ter was Gleeman " [ see below ; Note ( I ...
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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.