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... understand they shall much the better con rule themselves thereby ; for among all other books this is a singular book , and may well be called the regiment or governance of the body and soul . There was a noble clerk named Pogius of ...
... understand they shall much the better con rule themselves thereby ; for among all other books this is a singular book , and may well be called the regiment or governance of the body and soul . There was a noble clerk named Pogius of ...
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... understand the good and virtuous tales , that it may so profit unto the health of our souls that after this short and transitory life we may come to everlasting life in Heaven . Amen . BY WILLIAM CAXTON MALORY'S KING ARTHUR . ( 1485 ) ...
... understand the good and virtuous tales , that it may so profit unto the health of our souls that after this short and transitory life we may come to everlasting life in Heaven . Amen . BY WILLIAM CAXTON MALORY'S KING ARTHUR . ( 1485 ) ...
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... understand briefly the contents of this volume , I have divided it into 21 books , and every book chaptered , as hereafter shall by God's grace follow . The first book shall treat how Uther Pendragon begat the noble conqueror , King ...
... understand briefly the contents of this volume , I have divided it into 21 books , and every book chaptered , as hereafter shall by God's grace follow . The first book shall treat how Uther Pendragon begat the noble conqueror , King ...
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... understand , let him go read and learn Virgil of the pistles of Ovid , and there he shall see and understand lightly all , if he have a good reader and informer . For this book is not for every rude and uncunning man to see , but to ...
... understand , let him go read and learn Virgil of the pistles of Ovid , and there he shall see and understand lightly all , if he have a good reader and informer . For this book is not for every rude and uncunning man to see , but to ...
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... understands their musical sciences , and to whom of them each science is appropred . I suppose he hath drunken of Helicon's well . Then I pray him and such others to correct , add , or minish whereas he or they shall find fault ; for I ...
... understands their musical sciences , and to whom of them each science is appropred . I suppose he hath drunken of Helicon's well . Then I pray him and such others to correct , add , or minish whereas he or they shall find fault ; for I ...
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301 ページ - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
217 ページ - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
174 ページ - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
34 ページ - For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe.
301 ページ - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
220 ページ - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
284 ページ - What is a Poet ? To whom does he address himself? And what language is to be expected from him ? — Ijfe is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...
173 ページ - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
182 ページ - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
219 ページ - The effects of favour and competition are at an end; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has perished; his works support no opinion with arguments, nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity; but are read without any other reason than the desire of pleasure, and are therefore praised only as pleasure is obtained...