Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !

Updated: June 14, 2025


The love of mediaeval quaintness and obsolete words, however, led to a more important literary event the publication of Bishop Percy's edition of the ballads in the Percy folio the Reliques of Ancient Poetry. Percy to his own mind knew the Middle Ages better than they knew themselves, and he took care to dress to advantage the rudeness and plainness of his originals.

Johnson speaking of Milton's MSS. observed truly: "Such reliques show how excellence is acquired." Goethe in writing to Schiller asks him to return certain books of "Wilhelm Meister" that he may go over them A FEW TIMES before sending them to the press. And on re- reading one of these books he cut out one third of its contents.

She wondered what the comparison meant. "Paradise Lost" was so grand it tired her. Oh, there was the old volume of Percy's "Reliques." Did he mean like some of the sweet little things in that? Miss Arabella had said it wasn't quite the thing for a child to read, and had taken it away until she grew older. Uncle Winthrop took her hand again a small, slim hand; and his was slender as well.

If we could but any waies make the dead sensible of it in their grave, undoubtedly the Reliques of your Parents would rejoice at so happy and carefull an intention of you their children. And truly, what is there, among other cogitations, more pleasurable, then to begin with a handsom Shop-keeping? For this through the daily gain, yeelds every day new pleasures, and by consequence a merry life.

He was the missionary, who proclaimed its discoveries to distant countries the pilgrim, who travelled far and wide to collect its reliques the hermit, who retired to seclusion to meditate on its beauties the champion, who fought its battles the conqueror, who, in more than a metaphorical sense, led barbarism and ignorance in triumph, and received in the Capitol the laurel which his magnificent victory had earned.

On the third day, it gan to dawn fair; then came toward the host all that were hooded, and three wise bishops, in book well learned; priests and monks, many without number; canons there came, many and good, with all the reliques that were noblest in the land, and yearned Arthur's peace, and his compassion.

In the 17th century a few of the English popular ballads were collected in miscellanies called Garlands. But no large and important collection was put forth until Percy's Reliques , a book which had a powerful influence upon Wordsworth and Walter Scott.

Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry, in 1765 opened a storehouse of the fine old English ballads, which speedily became popular through the patronage of Scott, who made them his textbook for a variety of subjects. These poems, with Macpherson's "Fingal" introduced a new school of poetry into England.

Right merrily we sang, and I doubt not we should have sung the whole night through had not my sister, Miss Susan, come tapping at my door, saying that I had waked her parrot and would do well to cease my uproar and go to sleep. Judge Methuen has a copy of Bishop Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" that he prizes highly.

Instances without number occur in romance, in which a knight, by rashly granting an indefinite boon, was obliged to do or suffer something extremely to his prejudice. But it is not in romance alone that we find such singular instances of adherence to an indefinite promise. The king made him swear upon the holy reliques that he would fulfil his commands.

Word Of The Day

agrada

Others Looking