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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... Latin and French elements in Middle Scots . Alleged Celtic contributions . 70 88 CHAPTER V THE EARLIEST SCOTTISH LITERATURE BARBOUR , BLIND HARRY , HUCHOUN , WYNTOUN , HOLLAND By PETER GILES , M.A. , Hon . LLD . Aberdeen , Fellow of ...
... Latin and French elements in Middle Scots . Alleged Celtic contributions . 70 88 CHAPTER V THE EARLIEST SCOTTISH LITERATURE BARBOUR , BLIND HARRY , HUCHOUN , WYNTOUN , HOLLAND By PETER GILES , M.A. , Hon . LLD . Aberdeen , Fellow of ...
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... Latin , an acquaintance with , and some distaste for , the ordinary philosophical writers and , above all , a love of the Scriptures . By a regulation of Grosseteste , the first morning lecture had to be upon the Bible , which furnished ...
... Latin , an acquaintance with , and some distaste for , the ordinary philosophical writers and , above all , a love of the Scriptures . By a regulation of Grosseteste , the first morning lecture had to be upon the Bible , which furnished ...
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... Latin com- mentary upon it is one of his most original works ; and , in another of them , the Latin version is followed by an English translation , and a commentary ; the last has been widely used and highly praised by pious writers of ...
... Latin com- mentary upon it is one of his most original works ; and , in another of them , the Latin version is followed by an English translation , and a commentary ; the last has been widely used and highly praised by pious writers of ...
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... Latin works were mainly in manuscript , and , before they could be studied and compared with each other , the data for his life and character remained un- certain . Even now , there remain some points which it is wiser to leave open ...
... Latin works were mainly in manuscript , and , before they could be studied and compared with each other , the data for his life and character remained un- certain . Even now , there remain some points which it is wiser to leave open ...
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... Latin writings lately edited , imply great activity in teaching . He would probably ' determine , ' and take his Bachelor's degree some four years after matriculation ; in three more years he would take his Master's degree and ' incept ...
... Latin writings lately edited , imply great activity in teaching . He would probably ' determine , ' and take his Bachelor's degree some four years after matriculation ; in three more years he would take his Master's degree and ' incept ...
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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.
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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.
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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...