John Lydgate: Frasi in inglese
The Life of Saint Alban and Saint Amphibal, line 2913.
“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”
Joseph Ritson Bibliographia Poetica (1802) p. 87.
Criticism
“Harde to likke hony out of a marbil stoon,
For ther is nouthir licour nor moisture.”
"Letter to Gloucester", line 34.
“Off oure language he was the lodesterre.”
Prologue, line 252.
Of Chaucer.
The Fall of Princes
Bk. 8, line 3112.
Of the return of King Arthur.
The Fall of Princes
Thomas Warton The History of English Poetry (1774-81) vol. 2, pp. 52-3.
Criticism
The Troy Book, Bk. 3, line 4237.
Of Chaucer.
"On Inconstancy", line 36.
“The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball;
Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.”
Bk. 9, line 1211.
The Fall of Princes
John Skelton "Phillip Sparrowe", line 804.
Criticism
“For hit ys oft seyde by hem that yet lyues
He must nedys go that the deuell dryues.”
The Assembly of Gods; or, The Accord of Reason and Sensuality, line 20. <br class="br">This poem was long attributed to Lydgate, but is now thought to have been written after his death, during the second half of the 15th century. http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/asint.htm#f10 <br class="br">Misattributed
“There is no rose
Spryngyng in gardeyns, but ther be sum thorn.”
Bk. 1, line 57.
The Fall of Princes
“Who lesethe his fredam, in faith! he loseth all.”
"The Chorle and the Birde", line 95.
“Odyous of olde been comparisonis.”
"The Hors, the Shepe, and the Gosse", line 204.
William Webbe A Discourse of Englishe Poetry ([1586] 1970) p. 32.
Criticism
“Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.”
Secrets of Old Philosophers, line 1224.
“A wikked tonge wol alway deme amis.”
"Ballad of Good Counsel", line 7.
“For love is mor than gold or gret richesse;
Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.”
The Siege of Thebes, pt. 3, line 2716.
Thomas Gray "Some Remarks on the Poems of Lydgate", in The Works of Thomas Gray (1858) vol. 5, pp. 308-9.
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