Yet many of his verses consist of ten syllables, and the words not much behind our present English ; as, for example, these two lines in the description of the carpenter's young wife : " Wincing she was, as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast, and upright... The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray ... - Halaman 22oleh Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1846Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1846 - 404 halaman
...following his dame. Hire mouth was swete as braket or the meth, Or horde of apples, laid in hay or hetb; Winsing she was, as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. CHACCEH. THE little window, at which appeared the plump, round, and rosy face of Grace Bolt, the miller's... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 halaman
...a game, As any kid or calf, folowing his dame. Hire mouth was sweet as braket or the meth,* Or hord of apples laid in hay or heth." Winsing" she was as...jolly colt, Long as a mast and upright as a bolt. A broche she bare upon hire low colere, As brode as is the bosse of a bokelere." Hire shoon were laced... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 330 halaman
...folowing his dame. Hire mouth was sweet as braket or the moth," Or hord of apples laid in hay or heth.10 Winsing" she was as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast and upright as a bolt. A broche she bare upon hire low colere, As brode as is the bosse of a bokelere." Hire shoon were laced... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 318 halaman
...dame. Hire mouth was sweet as braket or the meth,° Or hord of apples laid in hay or heth.16 Winsing11 she was as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast and upright as a bolt. A broche she bare upon hire low colere, As brode as is the bosse of a bokelere." Hire shoon were laced... | |
| Thomas McCombie, Thomas MacCombie - 1850 - 218 halaman
...original vulgarity, and tha he had said the maids were ' softer than the wolle is of a wether,' or " Winsing she was as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. * * * « * He shoon were laced on hire legges hie ; She was a primerole, a piggesnie, For any lord... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1852 - 350 halaman
...make a game, As any kid or calf folowing his dame. Hire mouth was swete as braket or the meth, Or hord of apples, laid in hay or heth. Winsing she was, as...jolly colt, Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. A broche she bare upon hire low colere, As brode as is the bosse of a bokelere. Hire shoon were laced... | |
| James Bruce - 1853 - 320 halaman
...small;" and he seems to describe a modern lady of New York as travellers have painted her, when he adds : "Winsing she was as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast and upright as a bolt." On the other hand, in a great variety of European writers of different nations and ages, the embonpoint... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - 384 halaman
...Courteous. 'Toy. ' Certainly. • Secret. 10 Faith. Or hoard of apples, laid in hay or heath. Wincing1 she was, as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. A brooch she bare upon her low collere, As broad as is the boss of a bucklere. Her shoon were laced... | |
| John Dryden - 1867 - 556 halaman
...example, these two lines, in the description of the carpenter's young wife : | " Wincing she was, u 7 holt" I havo almost dono with Chaucer, when I have answered some objections relating to my present... | |
| Moses Coit Tyler - 1869 - 226 halaman
...to apply to her the last line of Chaucer's couplet descriptive of the Carpenter's Wife : " Wincing she was as is a jolly colt ; Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt." It is possible that Miss Jerushy was once young, but if so, it was at a period anterior to any embraced... | |
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