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Page xii
... romance . It was in these histories that the Latin style of the schools became most rapidly debased , partly because the authors were in many cases monks and not schoolmen , and partly because they had to deal with matters of private ...
... romance . It was in these histories that the Latin style of the schools became most rapidly debased , partly because the authors were in many cases monks and not schoolmen , and partly because they had to deal with matters of private ...
Page xiv
... romance . There does not appear to be any monu- ment of the language earlier than the year 1100. + However , as most of the popular literature of this period . was confined to the jongleurs , who were at the same time authors and ...
... romance . There does not appear to be any monu- ment of the language earlier than the year 1100. + However , as most of the popular literature of this period . was confined to the jongleurs , who were at the same time authors and ...
Page xvi
... We must , however , be understood as speaking of the written literature of the day ; for there can be no doubt that a great body of the medieval romances were in existence at this period , of which we xvi INTRODUCTION .
... We must , however , be understood as speaking of the written literature of the day ; for there can be no doubt that a great body of the medieval romances were in existence at this period , of which we xvi INTRODUCTION .
Page xx
... romances of the cycle of the Round Table . An example of Mapes's style is given at p . 305 of the present volume ... romance of Haveloc ; and a writer named David , whose work is lost , wrote a history of the reign of Henry I. in the ...
... romances of the cycle of the Round Table . An example of Mapes's style is given at p . 305 of the present volume ... romance of Haveloc ; and a writer named David , whose work is lost , wrote a history of the reign of Henry I. in the ...
Page xxi
... romances were preserved orally by successive jongleurs , and when committed to writing they differed much from the original copy . This is the reason that different manuscripts of the earlier romances , taken down from the recital of ...
... romances were preserved orally by successive jongleurs , and when committed to writing they differed much from the original copy . This is the reason that different manuscripts of the earlier romances , taken down from the recital of ...
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Page xviii - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page xviii - He will take the tenth of your sheep; and ye shall be his servants. "And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
Page xviii - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
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Page xvii - But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous : but the...
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