Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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Page 44
... noble cup 2 Brengwain was wrong bi - thought , got a wrong idea To that drink sche gan win And swete Ysonde it bi - taught ; Sche bad Tristrem bigin , To say . Her love might no man twin Til her ending - day . An hounde ther was biside ...
... noble cup 2 Brengwain was wrong bi - thought , got a wrong idea To that drink sche gan win And swete Ysonde it bi - taught ; Sche bad Tristrem bigin , To say . Her love might no man twin Til her ending - day . An hounde ther was biside ...
Page 64
... noble endurance and low adventure , of medieval miracle and old - world legend and myth , a range of narrative as great as the diversity of the tellers , and the narrative , with few exceptions , almost perfectly told . It was a great ...
... noble endurance and low adventure , of medieval miracle and old - world legend and myth , a range of narrative as great as the diversity of the tellers , and the narrative , with few exceptions , almost perfectly told . It was a great ...
Page 74
... noble salute I lerne song , I kan but smal grammeere . ' know but little ' And is this song maked in reverence Of Cristės mooder ? ' seyde this innocent . ' Now certés , I wol do my diligence To konne it al , er Cristėmasse is went ...
... noble salute I lerne song , I kan but smal grammeere . ' know but little ' And is this song maked in reverence Of Cristės mooder ? ' seyde this innocent . ' Now certés , I wol do my diligence To konne it al , er Cristėmasse is went ...
Page 77
... noble and my3tty Prince excellent My lord the Prince . o . my lord gracious I humble seruant and obedient wealth with which a discriminating age rewarded Chaucer . But , as he justly remarks himself , He that but little hath may do ...
... noble and my3tty Prince excellent My lord the Prince . o . my lord gracious I humble seruant and obedient wealth with which a discriminating age rewarded Chaucer . But , as he justly remarks himself , He that but little hath may do ...
Page 92
... noble lordes and gentylmen , enprysed to enprynte a book of the noble hystoryes of the sayd kynge Arthur , and of certeyn of his knyghtes , after a copye unto me delyverd , whyche copye Syr Thomas Malorye dyd take oute of certeyn bookes ...
... noble lordes and gentylmen , enprysed to enprynte a book of the noble hystoryes of the sayd kynge Arthur , and of certeyn of his knyghtes , after a copye unto me delyverd , whyche copye Syr Thomas Malorye dyd take oute of certeyn bookes ...
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