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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... known to everyone , but the minor poems that appear to be nearly contem- poraneous with it are less familiar . And they give us glimpses of the everyday life on which the epics do not touch . The same characteristic will be found ...
... known to everyone , but the minor poems that appear to be nearly contem- poraneous with it are less familiar . And they give us glimpses of the everyday life on which the epics do not touch . The same characteristic will be found ...
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... known as the C - text . Its relation to the B - text may be roughly stated as consisting in the insertion of a few passages , the rearrangement of a considerable number and the rewriting of a number of others with more or less change of ...
... known as the C - text . Its relation to the B - text may be roughly stated as consisting in the insertion of a few passages , the rearrangement of a considerable number and the rewriting of a number of others with more or less change of ...
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... known to everybody , why shouldst thou spare to declare ; but be not the first to blame a fault . Though thou see evil , tell it not first ; be sorry it were not amended . Thing that is secret , publish it never ; neither laud it for ...
... known to everybody , why shouldst thou spare to declare ; but be not the first to blame a fault . Though thou see evil , tell it not first ; be sorry it were not amended . Thing that is secret , publish it never ; neither laud it for ...
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... known under the title , Piers the Plowman , are not the work of a single author . So much of the necessary proof has already been furnished in the exposition of the different interests and methods and mental qualities displayed in the ...
... known under the title , Piers the Plowman , are not the work of a single author . So much of the necessary proof has already been furnished in the exposition of the different interests and methods and mental qualities displayed in the ...
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... known to Nicholas Brigham in the first part of the sixteenth century as Mum , Sothsegger ( i.e. Hush , Truthteller ) . There can be no doubt that this was , as Bradley suggests , the ancient title ; for it is not such a title as would ...
... known to Nicholas Brigham in the first part of the sixteenth century as Mum , Sothsegger ( i.e. Hush , Truthteller ) . There can be no doubt that this was , as Bradley suggests , the ancient title ; for it is not such a title as would ...
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alliterative Anglia ballad balladry Balliol 354 Barbour bishop Bodleian C. S. Series Cambridge Canterbury Canterbury Tales carols Caxton chapter Chaucer Chaucerian choral Chronicle College Confessio Amantis copy E. I. f early Edinburgh edition Engl England epic fifteenth century fourteenth century French friars Furnivall Gower Henry History of English House of Fame Huchoun ibid Jacke Upland John king Kingis Quair knight lady language later Latin Legend literary literature Lollards London Lord Lydgate manuscript medieval metre Middle Scots Minor Poems minstrel narrative original Oxford Pecock Percy Percy Folio Peterhouse pieces Piers the Plowman poet poetic poetry popular printed Prologue prose Pynson refrain reprinted Richard rime Rolls Series romance scholars Scotland Skeat Society songs stanzas story Tale tradition translation Troilus Troilus and Criseyde verse Vision vols William William Caxton William Langland writers Wyclif Wynkyn de Worde
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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...
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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...