The Cambridge History of English Literature: The end of the Middle AgesSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1908 |
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... Caxton . The first book printed in English - The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy . The first dated book issued in England - The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers . The Golden Legend . Malory's Morte d'Arthur . Caxton's views on ...
... Caxton . The first book printed in English - The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy . The first dated book issued in England - The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers . The Golden Legend . Malory's Morte d'Arthur . Caxton's views on ...
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... CAXTON . MALORY . BERNERS By ALICE D. GREENWOOD . Caxton as editor . The Golden Legend . Malory's Morte d'Arthur . Style of the Morte d'Arthur . Sir John Bourchier , Lord Berners . The Chronicles of Froissart . Huon of Bordeaux . The ...
... CAXTON . MALORY . BERNERS By ALICE D. GREENWOOD . Caxton as editor . The Golden Legend . Malory's Morte d'Arthur . Style of the Morte d'Arthur . Sir John Bourchier , Lord Berners . The Chronicles of Froissart . Huon of Bordeaux . The ...
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... Caxton need hardly have been so much concerned about the famous ' egges or eyren . ' John Trevisa , a Cornishman , had made himself somewhat notorious at Oxford . He was a Fellow of standing at Exeter College in 1362 , and Fellow of ...
... Caxton need hardly have been so much concerned about the famous ' egges or eyren . ' John Trevisa , a Cornishman , had made himself somewhat notorious at Oxford . He was a Fellow of standing at Exeter College in 1362 , and Fellow of ...
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... Caxton , Trevisa made . Caxton's words in the prohemye to Polychronicon imply that he had seen the translation ; but no more is heard of it until the first earl of Berkeley gave to James II an ancient MS ' of some part of the Bible ...
... Caxton , Trevisa made . Caxton's words in the prohemye to Polychronicon imply that he had seen the translation ; but no more is heard of it until the first earl of Berkeley gave to James II an ancient MS ' of some part of the Bible ...
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... Caxton's was . The author of The Complaynt says plainly that ' it is necessair at sum tyme til myxt oure langage vitht part of termis dreuyn fra lateen , be reson that oure scottis tong is nocht sa copeus as is the lateen tong . ' These ...
... Caxton's was . The author of The Complaynt says plainly that ' it is necessair at sum tyme til myxt oure langage vitht part of termis dreuyn fra lateen , be reson that oure scottis tong is nocht sa copeus as is the lateen tong . ' These ...
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Page 233 - The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline...
Page 455 - In this Impression you shall find these Additions. 1 His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2 His Life collected. 3 Arguments to euery Booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two Bookes of his, neuer before Printed.
Page 303 - I tryst sone aftyr to se yow. And now farewell, myn owne fayir lady, and God geve yow good rest, for in feythe I trow ye be in bed. Wretyn in my wey homward on Mary Maudeleyn Day at mydnyght. Your owne, JOHN PASTON. Mastresse Annes, I am prowd that ye can reed Inglyshe ; wherfor I prey yow aqweynt yow with thys my lewd...
Page 404 - It's whether will ye be a rank robber's wife, Or will ye die by my wee pen-knife?" "It's I'll not be a rank robber's wife, But I'll rather die by your wee pen-knife.
Page 106 - A ! fredome is a noble thing ! Fredome mayss man to haiff liking ; Fredome all solace to man giffis : He levys at ess that frely levys...
Page 247 - Off sik musik to wryte I do hot dote, Tharfor at this mater a stra I lay, For in my lyf I coud nevir syng a note. In The Testament of Cresseid, he essays the bold part of a continuator. Having turned, for fireside companionship on a cold night, to the "quair" Writtin be worthie Chaucer glorious Of fair Cresseid and lustie Troylus, he meditates on Cresseid's fate, and takes up another "quair" to " break his sleep," God wait, gif all that Chauceir wrait was trew.
Page 173 - A list of show passages would be out of place here ; it is enough to say that...
Page 371 - Glasgow, the seat of an archbishop, and of a university poorly endowed, and not rich in scholars. This notwithstanding, the church possesses prebends many and fat; but in Scotland such revenues are enjoyed in absentia just as they would be in praesentia, - a custom which I hold to be destitute at once of justice and common sense.
Page 171 - THE lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th 'assay so hard, so sharp the conquering, The...