The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are Prefixed, Three Dissertations: 1. Of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. 2. On the Introduction of Learning Into England. 3. On the Gesta Romanorum, Volume 1 |
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... manuscript notes by Ritson , Ashby , Douce , and other eminent antiquaries * , but especially on account of the ... manuscripts in the British Museum or editions of acknowledged fidelity . " The latter , from the great carelessness of ...
... manuscript notes by Ritson , Ashby , Douce , and other eminent antiquaries * , but especially on account of the ... manuscripts in the British Museum or editions of acknowledged fidelity . " The latter , from the great carelessness of ...
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... manuscript poems never before printed , and hitherto but little known . Nor was it easy to illustrate the darker and more distant periods of our poetry , without producing ample specimens . In the mean time , I hope to merit the thanks ...
... manuscript poems never before printed , and hitherto but little known . Nor was it easy to illustrate the darker and more distant periods of our poetry , without producing ample specimens . In the mean time , I hope to merit the thanks ...
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... manuscript , No. 1687 , commences with these words , " Me- sir Robert de Boron , qui cheste estore translata de Latin en Romance , par le commandement de sainte eglise : " and no one can for a moment doubt the influence of the Romish ...
... manuscript , No. 1687 , commences with these words , " Me- sir Robert de Boron , qui cheste estore translata de Latin en Romance , par le commandement de sainte eglise : " and no one can for a moment doubt the influence of the Romish ...
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... manuscript , That he fram Sigemunde Secgan hyrde . [ Ed . Kemble , l . 1743. ] Mr. Grundtvig , a Danish poet , has the merit of first making known the connection between this song and the Edda , by a communication inserted in the ...
... manuscript , That he fram Sigemunde Secgan hyrde . [ Ed . Kemble , l . 1743. ] Mr. Grundtvig , a Danish poet , has the merit of first making known the connection between this song and the Edda , by a communication inserted in the ...
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... manuscript , or the difficulty of deciphering correctly some unusual or obsolete term . For the last of these deficiencies no further justification will be offered , than that they are of a kind which every publisher of early poetry ...
... manuscript , or the difficulty of deciphering correctly some unusual or obsolete term . For the last of these deficiencies no further justification will be offered , than that they are of a kind which every publisher of early poetry ...
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Page clix - Though loud at first the pilgrim's passion grew, Sudden he gaz'd, and wist not what to do; Surprise in secret chains his words suspends, And in a calm his settling temper ends. But silence here the beauteous angel broke, The voice of music ravish'd as he spoke.
Page 3 - We look back on the savage condition of our ancestors with the triumph of superiority ; we are pleased to mark the steps by which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance...
Page cxlii - The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride; And...
Page xc - Even so late as the year 1471, when Louis XI. borrowed the works of Rasis, the Arabian physician, from the faculty of medicine in Paris, he not only deposited in pledge a considerable quantity of plate, but was obliged to procure a nobleman to join with him as surety in a deed, binding himself under a great forfeiture to restore it.
Page 45 - Against slanderous reports or tales, to cause discord betwixt king and people.' (Westm. Primer, c. 34. anno 3. Edw. I.) That it had this effect is the opinion of an eminent writer : See ' Observations upon the Statutes, &c.
Page lxxxv - About the year 790 Charlemagne granted an unlimited right of hunting to the abbot and monks of Sithiu, for making their gloves and girdles of the skins of the deer they killed, and covers for their books.
Page 86 - In all languages," as has been well said, "there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that precision which chooses a fresh symbol for every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the interchange of opinion." For example, a vast number of languages had at an early period of their development, besides the singular and plural, a dual number, some even a trinal, which they have let go at a later. But what I mean by a language renouncing...
Page clix - Approach'd the careless guide, and thrust him in ; Plunging he falls, and rising lifts his head, Then flashing turns, and sinks among the dead. Wild, sparkling rage inflames the father's eyes, He bursts the band of fear, and madly cries,
Page 28 - He may me blisse bringe ; Icham in hire baundoun. An hendy hap ichabbe yhent ; Ichot from hevene it is me sent ; From alle wymmen mi love is lent Ant lyht on Alysoun.
Page cxxxvi - This circumstance was highly favourable to the circulation of their learning in England. The suddenness of their dismission obliged them, for present subsistence, and other reasons, to sell their moveable goods of all kinds, among which were large quantities of rabbinical books. The monks in various parts availed themselves of the distribution of these treasures. At Huntingdon and Stamford there was a prodigious sale of their effects, containing immense stores of Hebrew manuscripts, which were immediately...