Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language. By G. Ellis, Volume 11801 |
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... Howard , Earl of Surrey , 1520 63 46 26 Lord Vaux , - 1520 55 27 John Hall , - 1520 90 28 Alexander Scot , - 1525 95 29 Clapperton , flourished about 1550 99 30 Thomas Norton , 108 31 Richard Edwards , Born Page - 1523 109 32 [ xii ]
... Howard , Earl of Surrey , 1520 63 46 26 Lord Vaux , - 1520 55 27 John Hall , - 1520 90 28 Alexander Scot , - 1525 95 29 Clapperton , flourished about 1550 99 30 Thomas Norton , 108 31 Richard Edwards , Born Page - 1523 109 32 [ xii ]
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... Lord Brook , 1554 234 49 Nicholas Breton , 1555 240 50 Thomas Lodge , 1556 259 51 George Chapman , 1557 264 52 William Warner , 1558 267 53 Henry Constable , 1559 274 54 Thomas Watson , 1560 277 55 Sir John Harrington , 1561 284 56 ...
... Lord Brook , 1554 234 49 Nicholas Breton , 1555 240 50 Thomas Lodge , 1556 259 51 George Chapman , 1557 264 52 William Warner , 1558 267 53 Henry Constable , 1559 274 54 Thomas Watson , 1560 277 55 Sir John Harrington , 1561 284 56 ...
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... Lord Herbert of Cherbury , 1581 34 78 Dawbridgecourt Belchier , - 1581 39 79 Phineas Fletcher , 80 Sir John Beaumont , 81 John Fletcher , 82 Francis Beaumont , 1582 42 1582 44 - 1576 46 - 1585 83 William Drummond , 84 David Murray , 85 ...
... Lord Herbert of Cherbury , 1581 34 78 Dawbridgecourt Belchier , - 1581 39 79 Phineas Fletcher , 80 Sir John Beaumont , 81 John Fletcher , 82 Francis Beaumont , 1582 42 1582 44 - 1576 46 - 1585 83 William Drummond , 84 David Murray , 85 ...
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... , 1631 350 141 John Dryden , 1631 352 142 John Collop , 1631 356 143 Thomas Flatman , 1635 362 144 Sir Charles Sedley , 1639 365 145 Robert Veel , 1648 381 146 Lord Rochester , 1648 384 147 Sir Francis Fane , 1650 386 VOL . I. [ xvii ]
... , 1631 350 141 John Dryden , 1631 352 142 John Collop , 1631 356 143 Thomas Flatman , 1635 362 144 Sir Charles Sedley , 1639 365 145 Robert Veel , 1648 381 146 Lord Rochester , 1648 384 147 Sir Francis Fane , 1650 386 VOL . I. [ xvii ]
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... Lord Rivers . - Scotish Poets - Robert Henrysoun - Pa- trick Johnstoun -- and Mersar . CHAP.XV. REIGN OF HENRY VII . 345 William Dunbar . - Gawin Douglas . - Minor Poets of this Reign . - Stephen Hawes . · 372 The Reader is requested to ...
... Lord Rivers . - Scotish Poets - Robert Henrysoun - Pa- trick Johnstoun -- and Mersar . CHAP.XV. REIGN OF HENRY VII . 345 William Dunbar . - Gawin Douglas . - Minor Poets of this Reign . - Stephen Hawes . · 372 The Reader is requested to ...
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Page 213 - HAvE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 301 - And sing with us, away ! winter away ! " Come summer, come ! the sweet season and sun ! " Awake, for shame ! that have your heavens won ! " And amorously lift up your headis all ; " Thank love, that list you to his mercy call I
Page 320 - Now have we many chimneys ; and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good-man and his family from the quack or pose, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted.
Page 322 - ... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town...
Page 275 - I am of opinion, that Lydgate made considerable additions to those amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way : and that he is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader.
Page 40 - IT WAS FROM ENGLAND AND NORMANDY THAT THE FRENCH RECEIVED THE FIRST WORKS WHICH DESERVE TO BE CITED IN THEIR LANGUAGE.
Page 323 - As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides.
Page 105 - Thomas, &c. It appears, from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr Douce, of London, containing a French metrical romance of Sir Tristrem, that the work of our Thomas the Rhymer was known, and referred to, by the minstrels of Normandy and Bretagne.
Page 327 - I saw where hung my own6 hood, That I had lost among the throng : To buy my own hood I thought it wrong; I knew it as well as I did my creed; But, for lack of money, I could not speed. The Taverner took me by the sleeve; "Sir," saith he,
Page 316 - Ploughman, have highly extolled this useful body of men, while the French minstrels of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries universally seem to approve the supercilious contempt with which the nobles affected to treat them.