The Complete Works of John Gower: French worksClarendon Press, 1899 - Latin poetry |
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Ainçois Ainz alme amour apres ascun asses auci author balade ceste char chascun chiere cil q'est compaignie Conf corage covoitise cuer cuers d'orguil dame deable deinz desire dieu dieus dist doit dolour doubt English ensi essample estoit estre fals falt fist French fuist furont gaign gent grant halt honour Incest jammais joye juggement l'alme l'en l'omme l'onour laist loign lour Ly sages malvois meinz mesmes meulx Mirour molt n'ad nepourqant no doubt noun Ore dirra orguil paour pecché perhaps piere poeple poet porra povre prent present primere puet q'ad Q'au q'elle q'en q'ensi q'est q'estoit q'il q'om Qant qe jeo quiert quoy resembler resoun rhyme richesce saint same sanz sciet seignour sercher serra serront Sicomme siecle Sique Solonc soul sovent syllable tiel toutdis trestout Triche truis used vait valt vice voet Vox Clam word
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Page 394 - IN PRINCIPIO erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum. Hoc erat in principio apud Deum. Omnia per ipsum facta sunt: et sine ipso factum est nihil, quod factum est.
Page lxxii - They are tender, pathetic, and poetical ; and place our old poet Gower in a more advantageous point of view than that in which he has hitherto been usually seen. I know not if any even among the French poets themselves, of this period, have left a set of more finished sonnets; for they were probably written when Gower was a young man, about the year 1350. Nor had yet any English poet treated the passion of love with equal delicacy of sentiment, and elegance of composition.
Page 429 - Sunt namque qui scire volunt eo fine tantum, ut sciant et turpis curiositas est. Et sunt qui scire volunt, ut sciantur ipsi: et turpis vanitas est [...]. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut scientiam suam vendant, verbi causa pro pecunia, pro honoribus: et turpis quaestus est.
Page 372 - Ne poet chaloir, mais q'une femne y soit; Si es comun plus qe la halte voie. Helas, qe la fortune me deçoit, C'est ma dolour, qe fuist ainçois ma joie.
Page 258 - Ball propound the question, When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then a gentleman? but even a conservative like John Gower found himself arguing in strong terms for the original equality of men. Tous suismes d'un Adam issuz, Combien que 1'un soit au dessus En halt estat, et 1'autre en bass; Et tous au mond nasquismes nudz, Car ja nasquist si riches nuls Qui de nature ot un pigas. O tu q'en servitute m'as, Si je meinz ay et tu plus as Richesce, et soietz sanz vertus, Si tu malfais et je bien fas,...
Page 391 - Francois la faconde, Pardonetz moi qe jeo de ceo forsvoie: Jeo sui Englois, si quier par tiele voie Estre excuse; mais quoique nulls en die, L'amour parfit en dieu se justifie.
Page 368 - De sä nature attrait le ter an soi Ma dame ensi vo dpuls regard plesant Par fine force attrait le coer de moi Nest pas en mon poair qant jeo vous voi Qe ne vous aime oultre mesure ensi Qe jai pour vous toute autre chose oubli Soubtz ciel nest oill mais qil...
Page 237 - Ne quiert la haire ainz qniert le say Tout le plus fin a son essay Ove la fourrure vair et gris Car il desdeigne le berbis und vom pfarrer das gleiche v. 20473 ff...
Page lxxi - Gower's manuscript. They are not mentioned by those who have written the Life of this poet or have catalogued his works. Nor do they appear in any other manuscript of Gower which I have examined.
Page lxxi - ... which flowed from a scribe unacquainted with the French language. To say no more, however, of the value which these little pieces may derive from being so scarce and so little known, they have much real and intrinsick merit.