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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Сторінка 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 ...
Сторінка xxii
... 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 ...
Сторінка 43
... 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 ...
Сторінка 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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