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 iv
... give the more poetical turn to the adventure , reprefent the Lady as detained from her father by a dreadful Dragon ... gives this fabulous account of the exploit in iv ANCIENT SONGS.
... give the more poetical turn to the adventure , reprefent the Lady as detained from her father by a dreadful Dragon ... gives this fabulous account of the exploit in iv ANCIENT SONGS.
Сторінка v
... gives this fabulous account of the exploit in a poem of his own writing that is ftill extant , and which records all the valiant atchievements of his life * . WITH marvellous embellishments of this kind the Scalds early began to ...
... gives this fabulous account of the exploit in a poem of his own writing that is ftill extant , and which records all the valiant atchievements of his life * . WITH marvellous embellishments of this kind the Scalds early began to ...
Сторінка viii
... give a lift of fuch metrical Hifto- ries and Romances as have fallen under my obfervation . As many of thefe contain a confiderable portion of poetic merit , and throw great light on the manners and opinions of former times , it were to ...
... give a lift of fuch metrical Hifto- ries and Romances as have fallen under my obfervation . As many of thefe contain a confiderable portion of poetic merit , and throw great light on the manners and opinions of former times , it were to ...
Сторінка ix
... give an infance or two from Shakespeare , by way of fpecimen of their use . In his play of KING JOHN our great Dramatic poet alludes to an exploit of Richard I , which the reader will in vain look for in any true hiftory . Faulconbridge ...
... give an infance or two from Shakespeare , by way of fpecimen of their use . In his play of KING JOHN our great Dramatic poet alludes to an exploit of Richard I , which the reader will in vain look for in any true hiftory . Faulconbridge ...
Сторінка x
... give a large extract from this poem , as a fpecimen of the manner of these old rhapfodifts , and to fhew that they did not in their fictions neglect the proper means to produce the ends , as was afterwards done in jo childijh a manner ...
... give a large extract from this poem , as a fpecimen of the manner of these old rhapfodifts , and to fhew that they did not in their fictions neglect the proper means to produce the ends , as was afterwards done in jo childijh a manner ...
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Сторінка 204 - Twixt sleepe and wake, I do them take, And on the key-cold floor them throw : If out they cry, then forth I fly, And loudly laugh out, ho, ho, ho ! When...
Сторінка 311 - William's feet. Her face was like an April morn Clad in a wintry cloud; And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear When youth and years are flown; Such is the robe that kings must wear When death has reft their crown.
Сторінка 311 - Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge, and broken oath: And give me back my maiden vow, And give me back my troth.
Сторінка 312 - Yet leave those eyes to weep? "How could you say my face was fair, And yet that face forsake? How could you win my virgin heart, Yet leave that heart to break?
Сторінка 199 - On the ground, to hear the mandrake groan : And pluck'd him up, though he grew full low ; And, as I had done, the cock did crow.
Сторінка 22 - And there sir Gawaine he her wed, And married her with a ringe. And when they were in wed-bed laid, And all were done awaye: "Come turne to mee, mine owne wed-lord Come turne to mee I praye.
Сторінка 280 - Which made him bolder and bolder. He had long claws, and in his jaws Four and forty teeth of iron ; With a hide as tough as any buff, Which did him round environ.
Сторінка 56 - Fu' snug in a glen, where nane cou'd see, The twa, with kindly sport and glee, Cut frae a new cheese a whang : The priving was good, it pleas'd them baith, To lo'e her for ay, he gae her his aith. Quo' she, to leave thee I will be laith, My winsome Gaberlunzie-man. O kend my minny I were wi' you, Hl-fardly wad she crook her mou', Sic a poor man she'd never trow, After the Gaberlunzie-man.
Сторінка 144 - Love wont to gae ! 1 leant my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree ; But first it bow'd, and syne it brak, Sae my true Love did lichtly me. O waly waly, but love be bonny A little time while it is new ; But when 'tis auld, it waxeth cauld And fades awa...
Сторінка 203 - Thro' bogs, thro' brakes ; Or else, unseene, with them I go, All in the nicke To play some tricke And frolicke it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meete them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them round. But if to ride, My backe they stride, More swift than wind away I go ; Ore hedge and lands, Thro...