The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld: With Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, 第 1 巻

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W. Paterson, 1874
 

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clxxviii ページ - It is impossible that I could have told you so," said the King ; " for nothing of the sort happened." It is much to be regretted that Sir Henry Halford should have taken so little trouble to ascertain the facts on which he pronounced judgment. He does not seem to have been aware of the existence of the narratives of James, Barillon, and Huddleston. As this is the...
131 ページ - He moste winke, so loude he wolde cryen, And stonden on his tiptoon ther-with-al, And strecche forth his nekke long and smal. And eek he was of swich discrecioun, That ther nas no man in no regioun That him in song or wisdom mighte passe. I have wel rad in daun Burnel the Asse...
cxlv ページ - Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white, Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a barbarous age, He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld.
76 ページ - Haill rois maist chois till clois thy fois greit micht, Haill stone quhilk schone vpon the throne of licht, Vertew, quhais trew sweit dew ouirthrew al vice, Was ay ilk day gar say the way of licht ; Amend, offend, and send our end ay richt. Thow stant, ordant as sanct, of grant maist wise, Till be supplie, and the hie gre of price. Delite the tite me quite of site to dicht, 10 For I apply schortlie to thy deuise.
clxxxiv ページ - Abone the quhilk with heuinly harmoneis The birdis sat on twystis and on greis, Melodiously makand thair kyndlie gleis, Quhais schill noitis fordinned all the skyis, Of repercust air the echo cryis Amang the branches of the blomed treis, And on the laurers siluer droppis lyis.
clii ページ - To greet glad Nature, and the god of day, And flowery Venus, blooming queen of May ; The songs of praise their tuneful breasts employ, Charm every ear, and wrap the soul in joy. Thus sung the sweet musicians on the spray...
clviii ページ - At length I lighted on Virgil Scotished by the Reuerend Gawin Dowglas Bishop of Dunkell, and vncle to the Earle of Angus ; the best translation of that Poet that euer I read : and though I found that dialect more hard than any of the former (as neerer the Saxon, because farther from the Norman) yet with helpe of the Latine I made shift to vnderstand it, and read the booke more than once from the beginning to the end.
ci ページ - He speaks of himself as weary of life, and promises to God and to Wolsey that he will " never have nor take way with the Duke of Albany, the unworthy Earl of Angus, nor with any other that assists the said Duke, nor will pass into Scotland but at the Cardinal's pleasure, so long as that wicked Duke should be therein, or have rule thereof.
clxx ページ - Baroco, was the opprobrium of the scholastic system of reduction. So intricate, in fact, was this mood considered, that it was looked upon as a trap, into which if you once got, it was no easy matter to find an exit.
81 ページ - With youtheid and his lustie levis grene ; So fair, so fresche, so liklie to endure, And als so blyth as bird in symmer schene.

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