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Page 42
... Whan tempestes done ther shippis swalow , And that a man ftande out of doute
A myle off thens and here it route ; Or ellis lyke to the humblinge Aftir the clappe
of a thundringe , Whan Jovis hath the eyre ybete , But it doth me for fere to swete
...
... Whan tempestes done ther shippis swalow , And that a man ftande out of doute
A myle off thens and here it route ; Or ellis lyke to the humblinge Aftir the clappe
of a thundringe , Whan Jovis hath the eyre ybete , But it doth me for fere to swete
...
Page 110
... And som bin double of entendements ; Thus lovirs with ther moral docunients
And elo'quent langage can examplifye The Craft of Love what it doth signifie .
Who list unto this balades have inspeccion Thinke that Lov'is lordshipis
excellente ...
... And som bin double of entendements ; Thus lovirs with ther moral docunients
And elo'quent langage can examplifye The Craft of Love what it doth signifie .
Who list unto this balades have inspeccion Thinke that Lov'is lordshipis
excellente ...
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... as Thucydides doth in many places very trinly , and Homer every where , and
that always most excellently , which obfervation is chiefly to be marked in hym ;
and our Chaucer doth the fame very praise worthely , mark hym well and conferre
...
... as Thucydides doth in many places very trinly , and Homer every where , and
that always most excellently , which obfervation is chiefly to be marked in hym ;
and our Chaucer doth the fame very praise worthely , mark hym well and conferre
...
Page 183
... tale can be more plainly told than The Tale of the Ploughman ? or what finger
can point out more direaly the Fope with his prelates to be Antichrist than doth the
poor pellican reasoning against the greedy griffon ? under which hypoiyposis or
...
... tale can be more plainly told than The Tale of the Ploughman ? or what finger
can point out more direaly the Fope with his prelates to be Antichrist than doth the
poor pellican reasoning against the greedy griffon ? under which hypoiyposis or
...
Page 187
20 O cursed eld ! the canker - worm of wits , How may these rhymes ( so rude as
doth appear ) Hope to endure , lith works of heavenly wits Are quite devour'd ,
and brought to nought by little bits ? XXXII . Then pardon , O moft facred happy
fpirit ...
20 O cursed eld ! the canker - worm of wits , How may these rhymes ( so rude as
doth appear ) Hope to endure , lith works of heavenly wits Are quite devour'd ,
and brought to nought by little bits ? XXXII . Then pardon , O moft facred happy
fpirit ...
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Page 192 - 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 191 - 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 192 - 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 191 - 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 191 - 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 186 - 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 186 - 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 190 - 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 15 - 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.
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| Title | Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... Volumes 13-14 of Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Stothard, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1782 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Oct 2006 |
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