Retrospective Review, Volumen9Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1824 |
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... Canterbury Tales of Chaucer . To which are added , An Essay on his Language and Versification , and an Introductory Dis- course , together with a Glossary . By the late Thomas Tyrwhitt , Esq . F.R.S. The second edition : Oxford , at the ...
... Canterbury Tales of Chaucer . To which are added , An Essay on his Language and Versification , and an Introductory Dis- course , together with a Glossary . By the late Thomas Tyrwhitt , Esq . F.R.S. The second edition : Oxford , at the ...
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... Canterbury Tales in parti- cular , minister to our information , in a more unequivocal way , and on a much more extensive scale . They bring the genuine picture of society alive and breathing before us . We mingle with our long - buried ...
... Canterbury Tales in parti- cular , minister to our information , in a more unequivocal way , and on a much more extensive scale . They bring the genuine picture of society alive and breathing before us . We mingle with our long - buried ...
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... Canterbury Tales : difficulties resulting from the obscurity of obsolete language , and still more obso- lete spelling ; from the obvious changes that have taken place in our modes of pronunciation - particularly with respect to ...
... Canterbury Tales : difficulties resulting from the obscurity of obsolete language , and still more obso- lete spelling ; from the obvious changes that have taken place in our modes of pronunciation - particularly with respect to ...
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... Canterbury Tales , are lights and guides of inestimable value in the furtherance of our de- sign : though at the same time we are not prepared , in all in- stances , to accord with Mr. Tyrwhitt , and are of opinion , that As proven oft ...
... Canterbury Tales , are lights and guides of inestimable value in the furtherance of our de- sign : though at the same time we are not prepared , in all in- stances , to accord with Mr. Tyrwhitt , and are of opinion , that As proven oft ...
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... Canterbury Tales , before we enter either into the consi- deration of the versification of Chaucer ( which has been the subject of so much controversy ) , or of his poetical merits and peculiarities , it may be necessary to take a ...
... Canterbury Tales , before we enter either into the consi- deration of the versification of Chaucer ( which has been the subject of so much controversy ) , or of his poetical merits and peculiarities , it may be necessary to take a ...
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Página 314 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 31 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Página 12 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Página 314 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 361 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Página 314 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
Página 19 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Página 12 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Página 13 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Página 364 - Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans...