Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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Page 34
... printed in any form . Besides the mere abridgments of Latin works , there were original metrical chronicles of much higher value , such as the Roman de Rou of the Jersey poet Wace ( c . 1100-1170 ) , an account of the Norman Conquest ...
... printed in any form . Besides the mere abridgments of Latin works , there were original metrical chronicles of much higher value , such as the Roman de Rou of the Jersey poet Wace ( c . 1100-1170 ) , an account of the Norman Conquest ...
Page 36
... printed , the first , from which we have quoted , written about 1200 , in which the author calls him- self ' Layamon the son of Leovenath ; ' while in the second , which is shorter by nearly a fourth , 36 The Arthurian Legend.
... printed , the first , from which we have quoted , written about 1200 , in which the author calls him- self ' Layamon the son of Leovenath ; ' while in the second , which is shorter by nearly a fourth , 36 The Arthurian Legend.
Page 40
... printed among the Old English Homilies published by the Early English Text Society . Of more literary value than any of these are the poetical paraphrases of Genesis and Exodus , written probably in Suffolk about the middle of the ...
... printed among the Old English Homilies published by the Early English Text Society . Of more literary value than any of these are the poetical paraphrases of Genesis and Exodus , written probably in Suffolk about the middle of the ...
Page 45
... printed in the appendix to English Miracle - Plays , Moralities , and Interludes , edited by A. W. Pollard , third ed . 1898 : Dominus . Hardė gatės have I gon , Sorewes suffred mani on ; Thritti winter and thridde half yer Have I woned ...
... printed in the appendix to English Miracle - Plays , Moralities , and Interludes , edited by A. W. Pollard , third ed . 1898 : Dominus . Hardė gatės have I gon , Sorewes suffred mani on ; Thritti winter and thridde half yer Have I woned ...
Page 50
... printed ; and as the romance in France had long ere this lost its early freshness , these imitations share the weakness of their models . Three of these romances have English heroes , and might be expected , therefore , to be racier ...
... printed ; and as the romance in France had long ere this lost its early freshness , these imitations share the weakness of their models . Three of these romances have English heroes , and might be expected , therefore , to be racier ...
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