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... sense , his speaking properly on all subjects , knowing what to say and when to leave off , following everywhere , without overstepping the modesty of , nature , he says : " The verse of Chaucer , I confess , is not harmonious to us ...
... sense , his speaking properly on all subjects , knowing what to say and when to leave off , following everywhere , without overstepping the modesty of , nature , he says : " The verse of Chaucer , I confess , is not harmonious to us ...
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... sense ( which is a rule in everything but mat- ters of faith and revelation ) must convince the reader , that equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic , was either not known , or not always practised in Chaucer's age . It ...
... sense ( which is a rule in everything but mat- ters of faith and revelation ) must convince the reader , that equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic , was either not known , or not always practised in Chaucer's age . It ...
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... sense of the word , it is very certain he did not . If he had done so , with any degree of genial preparedness , he would soon have made such inductions and deductions in regard to the secrets of the regularity of the poet's numbers as ...
... sense of the word , it is very certain he did not . If he had done so , with any degree of genial preparedness , he would soon have made such inductions and deductions in regard to the secrets of the regularity of the poet's numbers as ...
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... sense of true art , and more manifestly in proportion to our in- creasing acquaintance with his dialect and pronunciation , as can be discovered or dreamed in the French school . Critics , indeed , have set up a system based upon the ...
... sense of true art , and more manifestly in proportion to our in- creasing acquaintance with his dialect and pronunciation , as can be discovered or dreamed in the French school . Critics , indeed , have set up a system based upon the ...
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... sense requires , for som is the emphatic word of the verse . In the following passage from The Legende of Goode Women , the word emprise ( empress ) must be made a trisyllable ; the voice dwelling upon the r , pr is made to constitute a ...
... sense requires , for som is the emphatic word of the verse . In the following passage from The Legende of Goode Women , the word emprise ( empress ) must be made a trisyllable ; the voice dwelling upon the r , pr is made to constitute a ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accentuation adoun agayne Allas anoon bounte Canterbury Tales Chaucer chere Confessio Amantis countree dede Demophoon dere dethe Dido doon dooth doune drede Eneas EXPLICIT LEGENDA fader Faerie Queene fals flour frendes fynde goon Gower's Confessio Amantis grete hath Heroides herte hire herte hire suster honour INCIPIT LEGENDA Jason kepe kynge lady legend leste leve lyke lyste lyve manere mede mote myghte myn herte Mynos noghte noon nyghte Parlement of Foules past tense Piers Ploughman poet poetry queene quod rede Rome ryghte sche sect sely seyde shal Shepheards Calender shippe shulde sone sterte swerde swich syllable Tereus Tesbe Thanne ther Theseus thews thilke thoghte thoo thou thow thurgh toune trewe trouthe twoo tyme unto verse whan whanne withouten wolde word wyfe wyghte yeve
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xi - It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses, which are lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.
Seite 47 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Seite 119 - For woman is not undevelopt man But diverse: could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble...
Seite iii - I READ, before my eyelids dropt their shade, " The Legend of Good Women" long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen clouds from raining, tho' my heart, Brimful of those wild tales, Charged both mine eyes with...
Seite 76 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Seite x - Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. '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 : but this opinion is not worth confuting...
Seite xxiii - Saxon original, where it cannot have been added for any such purpose, as herte, childe, olde, zmlde, &c. In these therefore we must suppose that it was pronounced as an e feminine, and made part of a second syllable ; and so, by a parity of reason, in all others, in which, as in these, it appears to have been substituted for the Saxon a.
Seite 5 - So glad am I, whan that I have presence Of it, to doon it alle reverence, As she that is of alle...
Seite xxix - O God ! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. To sit upon a hill, as I do now; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Seite xxix - How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece: So minutes, hours, days, months and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.