Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - English literature |
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... means of dating them , I should be inclined to place them in the first quarter of the eighth century . They are devoid of Christian sentiment and doctrine . The prologue and epilogue of the Wanderer , and the long tag added to the ...
... means of dating them , I should be inclined to place them in the first quarter of the eighth century . They are devoid of Christian sentiment and doctrine . The prologue and epilogue of the Wanderer , and the long tag added to the ...
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... means of living for the three classes - land to dwell upon , and gifts , and weapons , and meat , and ale , and clothes , and what else the three classes need . . . ... And this is the reason I wished for material wherewith to order ...
... means of living for the three classes - land to dwell upon , and gifts , and weapons , and meat , and ale , and clothes , and what else the three classes need . . . ... And this is the reason I wished for material wherewith to order ...
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... English books appealed to a very small and by no means wealthy class of readers , and the development of our literature was retarded for lack of encouragement ; while of eight and seven . In the following quotation , The Arthurian Legend ...
... English books appealed to a very small and by no means wealthy class of readers , and the development of our literature was retarded for lack of encouragement ; while of eight and seven . In the following quotation , The Arthurian Legend ...
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... means dull reading . Here , for instance , are a few lines from an attack on the trailing gowns of women and their saffron - colour wimples : Lyrics . Meanwhile lyric poetry , both secular and religious , was springing up . The famous ...
... means dull reading . Here , for instance , are a few lines from an attack on the trailing gowns of women and their saffron - colour wimples : Lyrics . Meanwhile lyric poetry , both secular and religious , was springing up . The famous ...
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... means of support , and henceforth his life was passed between the raptures of contemplation and devotional writing . For some time before his death , in 1349 , he lived at Hampole , near Doncaster , and it is as Richard of Hampole that ...
... means of support , and henceforth his life was passed between the raptures of contemplation and devotional writing . For some time before his death , in 1349 , he lived at Hampole , near Doncaster , and it is as Richard of Hampole that ...
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Page 369 - ... shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 368 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 372 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt ; the...
Page 409 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 366 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 360 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Page 370 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice.
Page 353 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 369 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 373 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st...