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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... show that all our anticipations , high as they undoubtedly were , have been to a very large degree , indeed , realised . The aim and scope of the work leave it without any rival in the history of our literature . Scotsman . Sound ...
... show that all our anticipations , high as they undoubtedly were , have been to a very large degree , indeed , realised . The aim and scope of the work leave it without any rival in the history of our literature . Scotsman . Sound ...
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... show them the way ; but Piers , the ploughman , cried , Nay , by the peril of my soul ! I would not take a penny for the whole wealth of St Thomas's shrine ; Truth would love me the less . But this is the way . You must go through ...
... show them the way ; but Piers , the ploughman , cried , Nay , by the peril of my soul ! I would not take a penny for the whole wealth of St Thomas's shrine ; Truth would love me the less . But this is the way . You must go through ...
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... show him my cousin's house . ' They set out together . And here , it seems to me , this author ceased . The remaining lines I believe to have been written by one John But . They relate that , ere the author reached the court Quod ...
... show him my cousin's house . ' They set out together . And here , it seems to me , this author ceased . The remaining lines I believe to have been written by one John But . They relate that , ere the author reached the court Quod ...
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... shows himself to be in his insertion in the prologue , would have written the 4036 lines of his continuation of Do - well , Do - better and Do - best without again discussing them . The author of the B - text , as we have seen , had ...
... shows himself to be in his insertion in the prologue , would have written the 4036 lines of his continuation of Do - well , Do - better and Do - best without again discussing them . The author of the B - text , as we have seen , had ...
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... to speak and act in a later one as if they had been present all the time ; others disappear even more mysteriously than they come . Even the first of the added visions shows nearly all 24 Piers the Plowman and its Sequence.
... to speak and act in a later one as if they had been present all the time ; others disappear even more mysteriously than they come . Even the first of the added visions shows nearly all 24 Piers the Plowman and its Sequence.
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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...
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...