Wyclif, Chaucer, earliest drama, renaissance, tr. by W. C. RobinsonH. Holt, 1896 - English literature |
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... kind of transition to it in the alliterative verse ( indigenous to that part of the country ) , when presented without archaisms and without any claim to a higher form of poetry . In prose , accordingly , he wrote his Festial , at the ...
... kind of transition to it in the alliterative verse ( indigenous to that part of the country ) , when presented without archaisms and without any claim to a higher form of poetry . In prose , accordingly , he wrote his Festial , at the ...
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... kind were made . As early as 1390- if not earlier - an abridged copy of it was made , which , on its part , again formed the basis of a new Italian version . Is Maundeville - as a traveller and even as a writer - to be regarded as an ...
... kind were made . As early as 1390- if not earlier - an abridged copy of it was made , which , on its part , again formed the basis of a new Italian version . Is Maundeville - as a traveller and even as a writer - to be regarded as an ...
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... kind in the Middle Ages , Capgrave's account begins with a general survey of the world's history , gradually concentrating itself upon and ultimately changing into a special account of the writer's own country . The year of the ...
... kind in the Middle Ages , Capgrave's account begins with a general survey of the world's history , gradually concentrating itself upon and ultimately changing into a special account of the writer's own country . The year of the ...
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... kind of life . Descended from a family of note in Devonshire , he had at an early age taken up the study of law , and , when his years of apprenticeship were over , mounted the ladder of the law , at first step by step , by obtaining ...
... kind of life . Descended from a family of note in Devonshire , he had at an early age taken up the study of law , and , when his years of apprenticeship were over , mounted the ladder of the law , at first step by step , by obtaining ...
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... kind . In the end the case is settled in favour of the brother of the late ruler , as could scarcely have been otherwise , as the hereditary right of the Lancastrian dynasty rested upon the principle that the female descendants were ...
... kind . In the end the case is settled in favour of the brother of the late ruler , as could scarcely have been otherwise , as the hereditary right of the Lancastrian dynasty rested upon the principle that the female descendants were ...
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Page 250 - The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays; and yet my sorrow springs.
Page 222 - And then may chance thee to repent The time that thou hast lost and spent To cause thy lovers sigh and swoon: Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want as I have done. Now cease, my lute: this is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste. And ended is that we begun. Now is this song both sung and past: My lute be still, for I have done.
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Page 257 - A valiant corpse, where force and beauty met, Happy alas, too happy but for foes, Lived, and ran the race that nature set ; Of manhood's shape where she the mould did lose.
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Page 250 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs : The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
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Page 252 - I know she swore with raging mind, Her kingdom only set apart, There was no loss by law of kind That could have gone so near her heart. And this was chiefly all her pain...
Page 232 - LOVE. FAREWELL, Love, and all thy laws for ever ; Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more : Senec, and Plato, call me from thy lore, To perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavour...
Page 227 - HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN. Tagus farewell ! that westward with thy streams Turns up the grains of gold already tried ; For I with spur and sail go seek the Thames Gainward the sun that showeth her wealthy pride. And to the town that Brutus sought by dreams, Like bended moon that leans her lusty side ; My king, my country alone for whom I live, Of mighty Love the winds for this me give 1 ! FROM THE SECOND SATIRE.