The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are Prefixed, Two Dissertations. ... By Thomas Warton, ...Printed for, and sold by J. Dodsley, 1778 |
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... alfo in Latin ; and copied Ovid's elegiacs with fome degree of purity , and with fewer falfe quantities and corrupt phrases , than any of our countrymen had yet exhibited fince the twelfth century . Gower's capital work , confifting of ...
... alfo in Latin ; and copied Ovid's elegiacs with fome degree of purity , and with fewer falfe quantities and corrupt phrases , than any of our countrymen had yet exhibited fince the twelfth century . Gower's capital work , confifting of ...
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... alfo DE REGIMINE PRINCIPUM , Of philofophres SECRETUM SECRETORUM .--- There is an Epiftle under the name of Alexander the Great , De Lapide Philofopho- rum , among the SCRIPTORES CHEMICI artis aurifera , Bafil . 1593. tom . i . edit ...
... alfo DE REGIMINE PRINCIPUM , Of philofophres SECRETUM SECRETORUM .--- There is an Epiftle under the name of Alexander the Great , De Lapide Philofopho- rum , among the SCRIPTORES CHEMICI artis aurifera , Bafil . 1593. tom . i . edit ...
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... alfo by our author , from the year 176 , to the death of king Sifebut in the year 628. It was early printed . See it in Grotius's COLLECTIO RERUM GOTHICARUM , pag . 707. Amst . 1655. 8 - vo . C 2 ments ments of style , and other arts of ...
... alfo by our author , from the year 176 , to the death of king Sifebut in the year 628. It was early printed . See it in Grotius's COLLECTIO RERUM GOTHICARUM , pag . 707. Amst . 1655. 8 - vo . C 2 ments ments of style , and other arts of ...
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... Ulyffes and Penelope , " In a CRONIQUE " I finde writte . " Lib . iv . f . 63. b . col . 2 . He mentions alfo the CRONIQUE for tales of other nations . In the CRONIQUE • all that relates to the Trojan and Grecian story 12 OF THE HISTORY.
... Ulyffes and Penelope , " In a CRONIQUE " I finde writte . " Lib . iv . f . 63. b . col . 2 . He mentions alfo the CRONIQUE for tales of other nations . In the CRONIQUE • all that relates to the Trojan and Grecian story 12 OF THE HISTORY.
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... alfo GESTA ALEXANDRI , lib . iii . f . 61. a . col . I. And in the ftory of Sardanapalus , " Thefe olde GESTES tellen us , " lib . iii . a . col . 1 . 167 . Lib . v . f . 118. a . col . 2 . ← Lib . vii . f . 169. a . col . 1 . See fupr ...
... alfo GESTA ALEXANDRI , lib . iii . f . 61. a . col . I. And in the ftory of Sardanapalus , " Thefe olde GESTES tellen us , " lib . iii . a . col . 1 . 167 . Lib . v . f . 118. a . col . 2 . ← Lib . vii . f . 169. a . col . 1 . See fupr ...
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alfo alſo antient appears BALADE becauſe beſt Bibl biſhop Boccacio Bodl Boethius called caſtle Chaucer church circumſtances claffics compofition court defcribed defcription Du Cange edit elegant England Engliſh eſtabliſhed faid faint fame fatire fays fecond feems feven fhall fhews fhould fing firft firſt fixth flouriſhed fociety fome foon French ftanzas ftory ftudies fubject fuch fuppofe fupr GESTA ROMANORUM Greek Harl Henry himſelf hiſtory houſe Ibid infr John John Lydgate king king Arthur kynge ladies Latin learned leaſt Lond lord Lydgate mafter manufcript mentioned moft monk moſt muſt obferves occafion Oxford Oxon paffage perfon Petrarch piece play poem poet poetry prefent printed profe publiſhed purpoſe queen reign romance ſcholars Scotland ſeems ſhe SIGNAT Skelton ſtate ſtory thare thefe theſe thofe thoſe tranflated univerſity uſed verfe verſe whofe whoſe writer written wrote Wynkyn de Worde
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Page 284 - Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons tower The mid aerial sky.
Page 461 - The study of the classics, together with a colder magic and a tamer mythology, introduced method into composition : and the universal ambition of rivalling those new patterns of excellence, the faultless models of Greece and Rome, produced that bane of invention, IMITATION.
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Page 122 - Hebraic(R, &c., 4to. The printer was Wynkyn de Worde, and the author complains, that he was obliged to omit his whole third part, because the printer had no Hebrew types. Some few Hebrew and Arabic characters, however, are introduced ; but extremely rude, and evidently cut in wood. They are the first of the sort made use of in England.
Page 277 - I have been prolix in my citations and explanations of this poem, because I am of opinion, that the imagination of Dunbar is not less suited to satirical than to sublime allegory ; and that he is the first poet who has appeared with any degree of spirit in this way of writing since Pierce Plowman. His THISTLE AND ROSE, and GOLDEN TERGE, are generally and justly mentioned as his capital works; but the natural complexion of his genius is of the moral and didactic cast.
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Page 363 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.