Selections from Uhland's Ballads and Romances: With Biographical Notices, and Historical and Grammatical NotesMacMillan, 1888 - 89 páginas |
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Página 47 - Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn; No longer courted and caressed, High placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured to lord and lady gay The unpremeditated lay: Old times were changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime.
Página 50 - Fallen is thy foe,'" &c. The blindness and helplessness of the father, his distress, the feeling of desertion by his followers, his anguish for his daughter, his fear for his son, his instinct of confidence in a good cause and a young courage, are all finely indicated, almost without a thought of description ; but if we could put ourselves for a moment in a blind man's place under such circumstances as the ballad sets forth, we should find no truer idea of the very climax of anxiety than that expressed...
Página 44 - Sires , dist Taillefer, merci , Jo vos ai lungement servi , Tut mon servise me debvez : Hui se vos plaist me le rendez. Por tut guerredun ' vos requier, E si vos voil forment préier : Otréiez mei , ke jo n'y faille , Li primier colp de la bataille.
Página 44 - Quant ils orent chevalchié tant K'as Engleis vindrent aprismant : Sires, dist Taillefer, merci, Jo vos ai lungement servi. Tut mon servise me debvez ; Hui si vos plaist me le rendez. Por tut guerredun vos requier, E si vos voil forment preier : Otreiez mei , ke jo n'i faille , Li primier colp de la bataille.
Página 31 - knight,' has had many vicissitudes in the history of its meanings. Starting from its original sense of boy...
Página 32 - ... Compounds are very much more numerous in German than in English, and the liberty of forming new ones, after the model of those already in use, is much more fully conceded than with us. In making practical acquaintance with the language, therefore, we are constantly meeting with them of every class — chance combinations which each speaker or writer forms, as occasion arises, and which are not to be found explained in any dictionary.
Página 88 - ... adv., at the same time. jule|t, adv., at last* ; last of all.