Contributions to Literature: Historical, Antiquarian, and MetricalJ.R. Smith, 1854 - 284 pages |
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Page 160 - See yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth, To give him leave to toil ¡ And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn ; Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn
Page 21 - Hop, and Mop, and Dryp so clear, Pip and Trip, and Skip that were To Mab their sovereign ever dear, Her special maids of honour ; Fib, and Tib, and Pinck, and Pin, Tick and Quick, and Jil and Jin, Tit and Nit, and Wap and Win, The train that wait upon her
Page 44 - And the duke stood among them, of noble mien and stature, and rendered thanks to the King of glory, through whom he had the victory ; and thanked the knights around him, mourning frequently for the dead. And he ate and drank among the dead, and made his bed that night upon the field.
Page 178 - who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Page 151 - priest ;" and how coarse and rude by contrast with it is " You shall be taken hence to the place from whence you came, and thence to a place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead"—a sentence
Page 111 - passage, which may be regarded as one of the finest in that noble, though singular and laborious, topographical poem :— " These forests, as I say, the daughters of the Weald, (That in their heavy breasts had long their griefs concealed,) Foreseeing their decay each hour so fast come on, Under the
Page 41 - came in the throng of the battle and struck him on the ventaille of the helmet, and beat him to the ground ; and as he sought to recover himself, a knight beat him down again, striking him on the thick of the thigh, down to the bone.
Page 151 - Nothing of Mm that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change Into something rich and strange ; Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell.
Page 31 - It was during this retreat and pursuit that there occurred an incident of a frightful character, which is particularly described by Wace. " In the plain," says he, " was a fosse . . . The English charged and drove the Normans before them, till they made them fall
Page 51 - once distained with native English blood ; Whose soil yet, when but wet with any little rain, Doth blush, as put in mind of those there sadly slain." Most unfortunately, however, for tradition and poetry, the true original name of the spot referred to was not