Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker, Volumes 81-83Walter de Gruyter, 1897 |
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AHhLR Aletheia Alinda appreciation Athenaïs birds Book Britannia's Pastorals Browne Browne's Censur Chabot Chapman Chapman's character Chaucer clearly conception country life death describes Devonshire doth Drama English Faerie Queene faire Fairies fehlt AH Fleay Fletcher flowers follows Gifford gives Guillaume de Lorris hath Herrick herte Herzog Hesperides hLCAH hLRC Inner Temple interpretation of nature introduces Jonson King König landscape later leaves Limos Marina Massinger Massinger's Matthieu Narr Nymph Oberon once passage pastoral Pastoralists Philippe Chabot picture Pierre Matthieu Piers Plowman Pixies poem poet poetry qu'il reference says scene scenery seen Shakspere shepherds Song Spenser story stream sweet Szene Tavy Thetis thou tree trees unserem Verse wood written
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Page 101 - While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
Page 95 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 93 - Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat — Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets — Come hither, come hither, come hither!
Page 93 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 46 - Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right...
Page 95 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man...
Page 93 - This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower In spring time, &C.
Page 92 - Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 82 - Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori, di palme e d'amenissime mortelle, cedri et aranci ch'avean frutti e fiori contesti in varie forme e tutte belle, facean riparo ai fervidi calori de' giorni estivi con lor spesse ombrelle, e tra quei rami con sicuri voli cantando se ne giano i rosignuoli.
Page 71 - His bile was blak, and as the jeet it shoon; Lyk asur were his legges, and his toon;" His nayles whytter than the lilie flour, And lyk the burned