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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... Robin Hood . Babylon . The maid freed from the gallows . The making of ballads . General outlines of ballad progress . Sources of ballads . Riddle ballads . The epic tendency . Balladry in rags . Ballads of domestic tragedy . Child ...
... Robin Hood . Babylon . The maid freed from the gallows . The making of ballads . General outlines of ballad progress . Sources of ballads . Riddle ballads . The epic tendency . Balladry in rags . Ballads of domestic tragedy . Child ...
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... Robin Hood , was himself comparable in prowess to Little John . He was , however , a modest champion withal , for Harry tells us that Blair's achievements were inserted in the book by Thomas Gray , parson of Liberton . The book is not ...
... Robin Hood , was himself comparable in prowess to Little John . He was , however , a modest champion withal , for Harry tells us that Blair's achievements were inserted in the book by Thomas Gray , parson of Liberton . The book is not ...
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... Robin Hood pieces and others , one may note in it interesting variations of what may be called an elliptic - eccentric kind . The centre pin of the verse - division is steady ; but it works , not in a 1 Volume 1 , p . 298 , round socket ...
... Robin Hood pieces and others , one may note in it interesting variations of what may be called an elliptic - eccentric kind . The centre pin of the verse - division is steady ; but it works , not in a 1 Volume 1 , p . 298 , round socket ...
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... Robin Hood ; the works of John Alcock , bishop of Ely ; some curious religious works such as The Doctrinal of Death , The Miracles of Our Lady , The Rote or mirror of Consolation , The Twelve profits of tribulation . There is also one ...
... Robin Hood ; the works of John Alcock , bishop of Ely ; some curious religious works such as The Doctrinal of Death , The Miracles of Our Lady , The Rote or mirror of Consolation , The Twelve profits of tribulation . There is also one ...
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... Robin Hood and Randolph , earl of Chester , ' are mentioned in Piers the Plowman as known to the common men of that day . Robin Hood ballads are preserved ; the Randolph cycle is lost . But the outlaw literature must have been popular ...
... Robin Hood and Randolph , earl of Chester , ' are mentioned in Piers the Plowman as known to the common men of that day . Robin Hood ballads are preserved ; the Randolph cycle is lost . But the outlaw literature must have been popular ...
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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.
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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.
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...