English Literature: From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, 第 10 巻Macmillan, 1906 - 500 ページ |
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adventure Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon appears Arthur Arthurian ballad Breton lays Britain castle chansons de geste Charlemagne Chaucer Christian Chronicle Church clergy clerks composed Conquest contemporary court Crestien Crusade death Degare early England epic extant fables familiar favour fourteenth century France French friars Gawain Geoffrey Geoffrey of Monmouth Gower Grail Henry Henry II hero Holy honour interesting King King Arthur knight lady Lancelot land large number later Latin Layamon learned legend literary literature lives Lord manuscript Marie de France matter of Britain medieval Merlin metre Middle Ages Middle English minstrels monks narrative noble Norman original Paris poet popular prose Provençal queen redaction religious rhyme Richard Robert Robert of Brunne romance saints Saxon scholars secular song spirit stanzas story style tale thirteenth century Thomas thou translated treatises Tristram twelfth century vernacular verse Wace Welsh William writers written wrote Ywain
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319 ページ - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
381 ページ - Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty : for he is thy Lord ; and worship thou him.
319 ページ - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
305 ページ - Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride...
328 ページ - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
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256 ページ - Then Sir Bedivere cried: Ah my lord Arthur, what shall become of me, now ye go from me and leave me here alone among mine enemies? Comfort thyself...
101 ページ - Witnesse on him, that any perfit clerk is, That in scole is gret altercacioun In this matere, and greet disputisoun, And hath ben of an hundred thousand men. But I ne can not bulte it to the bren, 420 As can the holy doctour Augustyn, Or Boece, or the bishop Bradwardyn, Whether that goddes worthy forwiting...