Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 70
Page 166
... less monotonous and tedious than Gower , Lydgate , or Hoccleve ; more attractive and less un- couth than Skelton . Lowell , their most grudging critic , admits that they have ' more meat ' and substance in them than the southerners ...
... less monotonous and tedious than Gower , Lydgate , or Hoccleve ; more attractive and less un- couth than Skelton . Lowell , their most grudging critic , admits that they have ' more meat ' and substance in them than the southerners ...
Page 167
... less than fourteen times , evir to e'ir , and nevir to ne'ir , besides making here as else- where other changes in spelling and wording ( go , fro , roe , & c . , regularly to gae , frae , rae , & c . ) , in order to make Dunbar more ...
... less than fourteen times , evir to e'ir , and nevir to ne'ir , besides making here as else- where other changes in spelling and wording ( go , fro , roe , & c . , regularly to gae , frae , rae , & c . ) , in order to make Dunbar more ...
Page 495
... less your fairest mind invade : Were not our souls immortal made Our equal loves can make them such . So when from hence we shall be gone , And be no more , nor you , nor I , As one another's mystery , Each shall be both , yet both but ...
... less your fairest mind invade : Were not our souls immortal made Our equal loves can make them such . So when from hence we shall be gone , And be no more , nor you , nor I , As one another's mystery , Each shall be both , yet both but ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
34 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ælfred agayne Beowulf Bible Bishop bokes Brythons Cædmon Canterbury Canterbury Tales century Chaucer Christ Chronicle Church Cynewulf death dede doth doun edition England English literature English poetry Faerie Queene French grene gret grete hand hath haue Henry Henry VIII honour Huchown John king Kingis Quair knight kyng lady land Latin Layamon learning legend lines literary London Lord lyke maner moche myght mynde noble nocht Northumbria play poem poet poetry printed probably prose Queen Quen quhen quhilk quod religious Rhene rhymes Richard romance sayd Scotland Scots Scottish shal Shep Sir Thomas sone song Spenser stanzas story tale thai thair thee thenne ther therfore theyr thing thou thow thyng tion translation tyme unto Vercelli Book verse whan William wolde words writing written wrote wyll Wynkyn de Worde wyth yere