Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date. Volume the First. [-third.].J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall., 1765 |
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Seite xvi
... true fituation of the Danish army , which had invaded his realm ; he affumed the drefs and character of a Minftrel * , * Fingens fe JOCULATOREM , assumpta cithara , & c . Ingulphi Tift . p . 869. - Sub fpecie MIMI ... ut JOCULATORIE ...
... true fituation of the Danish army , which had invaded his realm ; he affumed the drefs and character of a Minftrel * , * Fingens fe JOCULATOREM , assumpta cithara , & c . Ingulphi Tift . p . 869. - Sub fpecie MIMI ... ut JOCULATORIE ...
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... licence of metre ; they have alfo a romantic wildness , and are in the true fpirit of chivalry . - The other fort are written in exacter mea- ? fure , fure , have a low or fubordinate correctness , fometimes xxii AN ESSAY ON THE.
... licence of metre ; they have alfo a romantic wildness , and are in the true fpirit of chivalry . - The other fort are written in exacter mea- ? fure , fure , have a low or fubordinate correctness , fometimes xxii AN ESSAY ON THE.
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... true original fong , which appeared rude even in the time of Sir Philip , and caufed him to lament , that it was fo evil - aparelled in the rugged garb of antiquity . This curiofity is printed , from an old manufcript , at the end of ...
... true original fong , which appeared rude even in the time of Sir Philip , and caufed him to lament , that it was fo evil - aparelled in the rugged garb of antiquity . This curiofity is printed , from an old manufcript , at the end of ...
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... true knighte , Of valour bolde and free . O ladye , I am thy own true knighte , Thy hefts for to obaye : And mought I hope to winne thy love ! -- Ne more his tonge colde faye . The ladye blufhed fcarlette redde , And fette a gentill ...
... true knighte , Of valour bolde and free . O ladye , I am thy own true knighte , Thy hefts for to obaye : And mought I hope to winne thy love ! -- Ne more his tonge colde faye . The ladye blufhed fcarlette redde , And fette a gentill ...
Seite 46
... true . Manye a kinge , and manye a duke , And lords of high degree , Did fue to that fayre ladye of love ; But never fhee wolde them nee . When manye a day was past and gone , Ne comforte fhe colde finde , The kynge proclaimed a ...
... true . Manye a kinge , and manye a duke , And lords of high degree , Did fue to that fayre ladye of love ; But never fhee wolde them nee . When manye a day was past and gone , Ne comforte fhe colde finde , The kynge proclaimed a ...
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Seite xxviii - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Seite 201 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Seite 220 - Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance, Age is full of care: Youth like summer morn, Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave, Age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, Age's breath is short, Youth is nimble, age is lame : Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Seite 228 - His cheek was redder than the rose ; The comeliest youth was he ; But he is dead and laid in his grave ; Alas, and woe is me ! " " Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more ; Men were deceivers ever ; One foot on sea and one on land, To one thing constant never...
Seite 54 - OI hae killed my reid-roan steid, Mither, mither, OI hae killed my reid-roan steid, That erst was sae fair and frie O.
Seite 247 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. 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: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Seite 202 - 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.
Seite 269 - Content I live, this is my stay, I seek no more than may suffice; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo! thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring.
Seite 101 - Nae sooner said the grace, Till Edom o' Gordon and his men, Were light about the place. The lady ran up to hir towir head, Sa fast as she could hie, To see if by her fair speeches She could wi
Seite 191 - IN Venice towne not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian writers tell.