Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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Page 63
... Chaucer's knight had often been the leading or principal champion : - At Allessandre he was when it was won , Full oft timis he had the borde begon , In Pruce . Prol . 51 . But Speght [ Gloss . Ch . ] says , " that being often among the ...
... Chaucer's knight had often been the leading or principal champion : - At Allessandre he was when it was won , Full oft timis he had the borde begon , In Pruce . Prol . 51 . But Speght [ Gloss . Ch . ] says , " that being often among the ...
Page 73
... Chaucer's / pieces , or at least legends drawn from him , were at that time sung to the harp ; for the tale , or rime , of Sir Topas is a poem of Chaucer now extant : so the Italians at pre- sent sing Tasso and Ariosto . Adam Bell and ...
... Chaucer's / pieces , or at least legends drawn from him , were at that time sung to the harp ; for the tale , or rime , of Sir Topas is a poem of Chaucer now extant : so the Italians at pre- sent sing Tasso and Ariosto . Adam Bell and ...
Page 82
... Chaucer- M In the old dayis of the King Arthure , Of which the Britons speken great honour ; All was this lond ... Chaucer's Rime of Sir Thopas , men- tioned above 82.
... Chaucer- M In the old dayis of the King Arthure , Of which the Britons speken great honour ; All was this lond ... Chaucer's Rime of Sir Thopas , men- tioned above 82.
Page 83
Thomas Warton. In Chaucer's Rime of Sir Thopas , men- tioned above , the knight , like Spenser's Arthur , goes in search of a Fairy Queen . ---- At length some wonted sleepe doth crowne His new - falne lids ; dreames , straight tenne ...
Thomas Warton. In Chaucer's Rime of Sir Thopas , men- tioned above , the knight , like Spenser's Arthur , goes in search of a Fairy Queen . ---- At length some wonted sleepe doth crowne His new - falne lids ; dreames , straight tenne ...
Page 127
... is plainly the occhiute piume of the Italian poet . Shak- speare calls the peacock- The eye - train'd Birdt . * Gier . Liberat . c . 16. s . 24. ↑ Muipotmos . ‡ Tam . Shrew . A. 4. sc . 13 . Chaucer , in one of his figures of Cupid , 127.
... is plainly the occhiute piume of the Italian poet . Shak- speare calls the peacock- The eye - train'd Birdt . * Gier . Liberat . c . 16. s . 24. ↑ Muipotmos . ‡ Tam . Shrew . A. 4. sc . 13 . Chaucer , in one of his figures of Cupid , 127.
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