Palmerin of England: Some Remarks on this Romance and of the Controversy Concerning Its AuthorshipBrowne and Nolan, 1904 - 466 pages |
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acrostic Albayzar Amadis Amadis de Gaula Amadis of Gaul amor Antonio appeared author of Palmerin Benjumea Castilian castle of Almourol Cervantes Chapter chronicle Clarimundo composed copy court cousa Dedication Desculpa Discurso Don Quixote doubt Dramusiando Duardos edition of 1567 editor of 1786 Española Estrennes Evora fama favour Florando Floriano Flortir folio four French ladies France Francisco de Moraes Gayangos Hespanha Italian João João III king of Portugal knights libro lines Lisbon Luis Hurtado Maria Mendes mentioned Miguel Ferrer Miraguarda Noronha noticed obras opinion Opusculo original Palmeirim de Inglaterra Palmerin de Oliva Palmerin of England passage pera Polendos Polinarda Portuguese edition Portuguese version Primaleon printed abroad prologue published quoted reason refer remarks romances of chivalry Salvá y Mallen saudade says seems Spain Spaniard Spanish Palmerin Spanish version speaks story Targiana Toledo Torsi translation verses Versuch vida words writer written
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Page 12 - Quell the Scot," exclaims the Lance, Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the Shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory ! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our Shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, To his Ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing Star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the Flock of War...
Page 160 - One show'd an iron coast and angry waves. You seem'd to hear them climb and fall And roar rock-thwarted under bellowing caves, Beneath the windy wall.
Page 155 - Every one who is white [of skin], brown [of hair], bold, honourable, daring, prosperous, bountiful in the bestowal of property, wealth, and rings, and who is not afraid of battle or combat — they are the descendants of the sons of Milesians in Erinn.
Page 348 - Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 165 - Desculpa dehuns amores, printed with his other works. Towards the close of Palmerin there are eleven chapters introduced to compliment this lady and three others of the same court. They are so clumsily inserted, and so little interesting, that I have omitted them, not merely as being unconnected with all which goes before, and all which follows, but as clumsily interrupting the story: they are not grafted, but nailed on.
Page 328 - Est in qua nostri litera scripta memor. Popule, vive precor quae consita margine ripae Hoc in rugoso cortice carmen habes: Cum Paris Oenone poterit spirare relicta, Adfontem Xantki versa recur ret aqua.
Page 247 - Item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, &c., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert. However, after some pause, the brother so often mentioned for his erudition, who was well skilled in criticisms, had found in a certain author, which he said should be nameless, that the same word which in the will is called fringe...
Page 387 - Cauallero Palmerin de Inglaterra : hijo del rey don Duardos : en el qual se prosiguen y han fin los muy dulces amores que tuuo con la Ynfanta Polinarda dando 5ima a muchas auenturas y ganando immortal fama con sus grades fechos.
Page 387 - Fue impresso el presente libro en la Imperial | ciudad de Toledo en casa de Fernando de Santa Catherina difunto | que aya gloria.
Page 387 - Polinarda dando 5ima a muchas auenturas y ganando immortal fama con sus grades fechos. Y de Floriano del desierto su hermano con algunas del principe Florendos hijo de Primaleon. Impresso Ano, MDxlviij.