Chronicle of Scottish Poetry: From the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns, Volume 4J. Sibbald, 1802 |
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Chronicle of Scottish Poetry: From the Thirteenth Century, to the ..., Volume 4 James Sibbald Volledige weergave - 1802 |
Chronicle of Scottish Poetry: From the Thirteenth Century to the ..., Volume 4 James Sibbald Volledige weergave - 1802 |
Chronicle of Scottish Poetry: From the Thirteenth Century, to the ..., Volume 4 James Sibbald Volledige weergave - 1802 |
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Pagina 5 - When this was done, they returned with their booty about the rising of the sun, and made their doors and windows to triumph in the flowery spoil. The after part of the day was...
Pagina 140 - ... Oxford (whoever he was) had the same idea, for he expresses the word umpire, in his Latin, by Impar. Tit. xv. § 14. Index, IMPAB, aut Arbitrator, in qudcunque causA electus.
Pagina lxi - The feilds ou'rflouis With gouans that grouis ; Quhair lilies lyk lou is, Als rid as the rone. The Turtill that treu is, With nots that reneuis Hir pairtie perseuis. The night is neir gone. Nou Hairts with Hynds, Conforme to thair kynds, Hie tursis thair tynds, On grund vhair they grone.
Pagina xli - Scotland led in luve and le, Away wes sons of ale and brede, Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle : ' Oure gold wes changyd into lede, Cryst, borne into virgynyte, Succour Scotland and remede, That stad is in perplexyte.
Pagina 167 - a collection of those deeds by which the nobility and gentry of Scotland were tyrannically constrained to subscribe allegiance to Edward I of England, in 1 296, and which were more particularly recorded in four large rolls of parchment, consisting of thirty-five pieces, bound together, and kept in the Tower of London.
Pagina xlv - For the dialeft which is now called Scottish, we are indebted to a few writers, of depraved tafte about the end of the feventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries ; who, inftead of contributing, like Drummond of .Hawthornden, to the improvement of the written language of their country, chofe to pen elegies on pipers, and dying fpeeches of hounds and horfes, in the familiar dialedts of the meaneft vulgar.
Pagina xlii - Ingulphus gives of this matter is,* that Edward, commonly called the Confessor, having been educated at the court of his uncle Duke Richard II. and having resided in Normandy many years, became almost a Frenchman. Upon his return from thence and accession to the throne of England in 1043, he brought over with him a number of Normans, whom he promoted to the highest dignities ; and, according to Ingulphus, under the influence of the King and his Norman...
Pagina lv - ... northern nations, it is not probable that the original poetry of these nations should have been founded on a similar prosody ; particularly, as the harmony of all the modern languages depends much more upon accent and emphasis, that is to say, upon changes in the tone or in the strength of the voice, than upon quantity, by which is meant the length of time employed in pronouncing the syllables. Upon the whole, it must still remain a doubt, whether the Anglo-Saxon verses were strictly metrical,...
Pagina xliii - ... schools are Winchester and Eton, those schools being always mentioned with special honour and privileges in Acts of Parliament which are subsequent to their foundation. The monasteries were generally the schools of the middle ages, and in the better ages of the monasteries — ie from the beginning of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century — satisfied the duty of primary instruction fairly well.