Lives of Scottish Worthies: James I [pt. 2]. Robert Henryson. William Dunbar. Gavin Douglas. Sir David Lindsay. Antiquarian illustrationsJ. Murray, 1840 |
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... Dame Pleasance , " 145. - Progress of the Poem , 146. - Marriage of King Hart , and Happy Life , 147. - Arrival of Age , and King Hart's Distress , 148.- His Queen and her Subjects desert him , 149. - His Death and Testament , 149 ...
... Dame Pleasance , " 145. - Progress of the Poem , 146. - Marriage of King Hart , and Happy Life , 147. - Arrival of Age , and King Hart's Distress , 148.- His Queen and her Subjects desert him , 149. - His Death and Testament , 149 ...
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... dame , her sister , are admirably given : - 1 " Quhen thus were lugit 10 thir twa sillie mice , The youngest sister to her buttry hied , And brocht furth nuts and pease , instead of spice , And sic plain cheer , as she had her beside ...
... dame , her sister , are admirably given : - 1 " Quhen thus were lugit 10 thir twa sillie mice , The youngest sister to her buttry hied , And brocht furth nuts and pease , instead of spice , And sic plain cheer , as she had her beside ...
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... Dame Nature , having first commanded fierce Neptune and Eolus the bald not to perturb the water nor the air- " And that na schouris snell , 1 nor blastes cauld , Effray should flouris , nor fowlis on the fold- issues next her mandate to ...
... Dame Nature , having first commanded fierce Neptune and Eolus the bald not to perturb the water nor the air- " And that na schouris snell , 1 nor blastes cauld , Effray should flouris , nor fowlis on the fold- issues next her mandate to ...
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... dame Nature came , and did incline , With visage bold , and courage leonine . " This awful beast was terrible of cheir , Piercing of look , and stout of countenance ; Right strong of corps , in fashion fair , but fier , Lusty of shape ...
... dame Nature came , and did incline , With visage bold , and courage leonine . " This awful beast was terrible of cheir , Piercing of look , and stout of countenance ; Right strong of corps , in fashion fair , but fier , Lusty of shape ...
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... Dame Nature , have all faded into empty air ; and he consoles himself by describing the vision . This sweet poem was written , as we already know , in commemoration of the union of James IV . with the lady Margaret Tudor . It was ...
... Dame Nature , have all faded into empty air ; and he consoles himself by describing the vision . This sweet poem was written , as we already know , in commemoration of the union of James IV . with the lady Margaret Tudor . It was ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid amongst ancient Angus appears Archbishop Beaton Athole baith barons beautiful bird Bishop bright castle Chaucer Commonweill court crown Dame delight Douglas Dunbar Earl Earl of Angus Earl of Strathern England English estates fair feudal flowers Fordun France fresh friar Robert GAVIN DOUGLAS gold grace grene gude hand heart Henry Henry the Minstrel Highland History of Scotland honour horse Item James James IV John King Hart king's knight ladies land Lindsay's Lion King Lord lusty Meldrum ment Minstrel monarch mony natural noble nocht o'er palace papingo Parliament Parliament of Scotland play poem poet poetical poetry prince princess queen Quhen quhilk reader richt ROBERT HENRYSOUN royal sall satire says scho Scotland Scots Scottish seen Sir David Lindsay squire stanzas suld sweet Syne thair thee thir thou thro tion town unto Venus weill whilst youth
Pasajes populares
Página 162 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 163 - With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god of Palestine; And mooned Ashtaroth Heaven's queen and mother both,...
Página 163 - In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god of Palestine; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers' holy shine; The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn, In vain...
Página 55 - Worship all ye that lovers be this May, For of your bliss the kalends are begun, And sing with us, away, winter away, Come, summer come, the sweet season and sun.
Página 163 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Página 163 - In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about 'the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste Nor is Osiris seen In Memphian grove...
Página 171 - Largior hie campos aether et lumine vestit Purpureo solemque suum, sua sidera norunt. Pars in gramineis exercent membra palaestris, Contendunt ludo et fulva luctantur arena ; Pars pedibus plaudunt choreas et carmina dicunt.
Página 75 - among us moderns, James, King of Scotland, who not only composed many sacred pieces of vocal music, but also of himself invented a new kind of music, plaintive and melancholy, different from all others, in which he has been imitated by Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, who, in our age, has improved music with new and admirable inventions,
Página 170 - Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est. pauci, quos aequus amavit luppiter aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus, 130 dis geniti potuere.
Página 77 - Henderson wittily obseruing, that Chaucer in his 5th booke had related the death of Troilus, but made no mention what became of Creseid, he learnedly takes vppon him in a fine poeticall way to expres the punishment & end due to a false vnconstant whore, which commonly terminates in extreme misery...