Wine, Women, and Song.

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Author: John Addington Symonds

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Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1406867357

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Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs translated into English verse together with an essay. First published in 1884.

Wine, Women and Song

Wine, Women and Song PDF

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-27

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781354817674

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Wine, Women, and Song; Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs

Wine, Women, and Song; Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs PDF

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781230441986

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...This is wisdom, this is truth: Chase the joys of tender love In the leisure of our youth! Keep the vows we swore together, Lads, obey that ordinance; Seek the fields in sunny weather, Where the laughing maidens dance. Like a dream our prime is flown, Prisoned in a study; Sport and folly are youth's own, Tender youth and ruddy. There the lad who lists may see Which among the maids is kind: There young limbs deliciously Flashing through the dances wind: While the girls their arms are raising, Moving, winding o'er the lea, Still I stand and gaze, and gazing They have stolen the soul of me! Like a dream our prime is flown, Prisoned in a study; Sport and folly are youth's own, Tender youth and ruddy. XV. A separate Section can be devoted to songs in the manner of the early French pastoral. These were fashionable at a remote period in all parts of Europe; and I have already had occasion, in another piece of literary history, to call attention to the Italian madrigals of the fourteenth century composed in this species. Their point is mainly this: A man of birth and education, generally a dweller in the town, goes abroad into the fields, lured by fair spring weather, and makes love among trees to a country wench. The Vagi turn the pastoral to their own purpose, and always represent the greenwood lover as a chrkus. One of these rural pieces has a pretty opening stanza: --"When the sweet Spring was ascending, Not yet May, at April's ending, While the sun was heavenward wending, Stood a girl of grace transcending Underneath the green bough, sending Songs aloft with pipings." Another gives a slightly comic turn to the chief incident. See Renaissance in Italy, vol. iv. p. 156. A PASTORAL. No. 24. There went out in the dawning light A little...

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