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 a Later Date..Thomas Percy J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall., 1767 - 400 страници |
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... poems are prefented to your LADYSHIP , not as la- bours of art , but as effufions of nature , fhew- ing the firft efforts of ancient genius , and ex- hibiting the customs and opinions of remote ages : of ages that had been almost loft ...
... poems are prefented to your LADYSHIP , not as la- bours of art , but as effufions of nature , fhew- ing the firft efforts of ancient genius , and ex- hibiting the customs and opinions of remote ages : of ages that had been almost loft ...
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... poems , fongs , and metrical romances . This MS . was written about the middle of the last cen- tury , but contains compofitions of all times and dates , from the ages prior to Chaucer , to the conclufion of the reign of Charles 1 ...
... poems , fongs , and metrical romances . This MS . was written about the middle of the last cen- tury , but contains compofitions of all times and dates , from the ages prior to Chaucer , to the conclufion of the reign of Charles 1 ...
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... poems , arranged chiefly according to the order of time , and fhowing the gradual improvements of the English language and poetry from the earlieft ages down to the prefent . Each VOLUME , or SERIES , is divided into three BOOKS , to ...
... poems , arranged chiefly according to the order of time , and fhowing the gradual improvements of the English language and poetry from the earlieft ages down to the prefent . Each VOLUME , or SERIES , is divided into three BOOKS , to ...
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... poems are also preserved in the Bodleyan Library . The archives of the Antiquarian Society at London contain a multitude of curious political poems in large folio A life of our curious collector Mr. PEPYS , may be seen in " The ...
... poems are also preserved in the Bodleyan Library . The archives of the Antiquarian Society at London contain a multitude of curious political poems in large folio A life of our curious collector Mr. PEPYS , may be seen in " The ...
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... poems in MS . befides one folio volume of printed ballads . From all these fome of the beft pieces were felected , and from many private collections , as well printed , as manufcript : particularly from one large folio volume which was ...
... poems in MS . befides one folio volume of printed ballads . From all these fome of the beft pieces were felected , and from many private collections , as well printed , as manufcript : particularly from one large folio volume which was ...
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Страница 238 - 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.
Страница 219 - 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.
Страница 318 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Страница 219 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb, The rest complains of cares to come.
Страница 269 - 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...
Страница 190 - Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat; I have had it four and forty...
Страница 78 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.
Страница lxxx - Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Страница 220 - 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.
Страница 233 - For whereas twenty men were wont To wait with bended knee: She gave allowance but to ten, And after...