Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... Chaucer Reynold Pecock ( Bishop of Chichester ) Sir John Fortescue Fenn's Letters Caxton The Chronicles of England Page 3 25 54 87 113 130 - 142 - 160 173 204 - 209 · 215 229 - 247 - 263 277 294 · 306 - 321 331 357 396 - 408 - 414 - 424 ...
... Chaucer Reynold Pecock ( Bishop of Chichester ) Sir John Fortescue Fenn's Letters Caxton The Chronicles of England Page 3 25 54 87 113 130 - 142 - 160 173 204 - 209 · 215 229 - 247 - 263 277 294 · 306 - 321 331 357 396 - 408 - 414 - 424 ...
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... renowned poets Chaucer and Gower , to whom the early im- provement of our language is chiefly to be at- tributed . Caxton , however , did not escape censure for changing what he deemed the obsolete lan- guage : for 49 TREVISA .
... renowned poets Chaucer and Gower , to whom the early im- provement of our language is chiefly to be at- tributed . Caxton , however , did not escape censure for changing what he deemed the obsolete lan- guage : for 49 TREVISA .
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... Chaucer alludes in the following lines : This Lollar here woll preache us somewhat , man . He wolde sowin some difficultie , Or spring in some cockle in our clene corn . Squire's Prologue . Others derive the name from one Walter Lolhard ...
... Chaucer alludes in the following lines : This Lollar here woll preache us somewhat , man . He wolde sowin some difficultie , Or spring in some cockle in our clene corn . Squire's Prologue . Others derive the name from one Walter Lolhard ...
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... out into a new and untried way , in whatever state of society it may be found , marks a genius above the common order . Such men are entitled to everlasting gratitude , CHAUCER , WE E come now to the renowned poet 86 WICLIFFE .
... out into a new and untried way , in whatever state of society it may be found , marks a genius above the common order . Such men are entitled to everlasting gratitude , CHAUCER , WE E come now to the renowned poet 86 WICLIFFE .
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... CHAUCER , WE E come now to the renowned poet and emi- nent scholar GEOFFREY CHAUCER ; and as the recorded particulars of his life are not nu- merous , and are besides of a description cal- .culated to illustrate the manners of the shall ...
... CHAUCER , WE E come now to the renowned poet and emi- nent scholar GEOFFREY CHAUCER ; and as the recorded particulars of his life are not nu- merous , and are besides of a description cal- .culated to illustrate the manners of the shall ...
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Page 463 - He had a walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath Field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to preach before the king's majesty now.
Page 436 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 259 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 463 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 464 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece ; so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen...
Page 252 - I, according to my copy, have done set it in imprint, to the intent that noble men may see and learn the noble acts of chivalry, the gentle and virtuous deeds that some knights used in those days, by which they came to honour; and how they that were vicious were punished and oft put to shame and rebuke...
Page 464 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Page 252 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.
Page 259 - Christian knights; and now I dare say," said Sir Ector, "thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand ; and thou were the courtliest knight that ever bare shield ; and thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse ; and thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman ; and thou were the kindest man that ever...
Page 462 - He will not have it defended by Man, or Man's power, but by His Word only, by the which He hath evermore defended it, and that by a way far above man's power or reason, as all the stories of the Bible make mention.