English Literature: From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, 第 10 巻Macmillan, 1906 - 500 ページ |
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... sort of literature as the nobility , only in a ruder form . When versions of sophisticated tales were prepared by men of humble origin for the lowly of the land , they were stripped of their polite embellishments and made ...
... sort of literature as the nobility , only in a ruder form . When versions of sophisticated tales were prepared by men of humble origin for the lowly of the land , they were stripped of their polite embellishments and made ...
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... sort of works were once thought of edifying import . This beautifully written and illuminated parchment , now in the Advocates ' Library at Edinburgh , contains over forty distinct In pieces , many short or fragmentary , others of 14 ...
... sort of works were once thought of edifying import . This beautifully written and illuminated parchment , now in the Advocates ' Library at Edinburgh , contains over forty distinct In pieces , many short or fragmentary , others of 14 ...
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... sort . We are not here concerned with the infinite number of jugglers , tumblers , contortionists , and mountebanks who congregated at places of assembly and entertained spectators by circus tricks ; but rather with those more self ...
... sort . We are not here concerned with the infinite number of jugglers , tumblers , contortionists , and mountebanks who congregated at places of assembly and entertained spectators by circus tricks ; but rather with those more self ...
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... sort , while they earnestly denounced the baser . Bishop Grosseteste was one of the most strenuous in upholding the traditional opinion of the Church towards the class in general , and yet , according to Robert of Brunne , he was ...
... sort , while they earnestly denounced the baser . Bishop Grosseteste was one of the most strenuous in upholding the traditional opinion of the Church towards the class in general , and yet , according to Robert of Brunne , he was ...
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... sort of information , a common ideal of honour and truth , a common basis of religious belief . They did more . They communicated to them the best sentiment of other nations as manifested in their conceptions of heroes and saints . They ...
... sort of information , a common ideal of honour and truth , a common basis of religious belief . They did more . They communicated to them the best sentiment of other nations as manifested in their conceptions of heroes and saints . They ...
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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 John King King Arthur knight lady Lancelot land large number later Latin Layamon learned legend literary literature lives Lord manuscript 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 tongue tradition translated treatises Tristram twelfth century vernacular verse Wace Welsh William writers written wrote Ywain
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446 ページ - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
319 ページ - ... 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. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...
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.
427 ページ - But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded...
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...
257 ページ - ... and do as well as thou mayest, for in me is no trust for to trust in ; for I will into the vale of Avilion to heal me of my grievous wound : and if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul.
450 ページ - I travelled, I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come from father to son, and are most in vogue among the common people of the countries through which I passed...
309 ページ - Onely she turnd a pin, and by and by It cut away upon the yielding wave, Ne cared she her course for to apply ; For it was taught the way which she would have, And both from rocks and flats it selfe could wisely save.
280 ページ - Thrumming on an empty can Some old hunting ditty, while He doth his green way beguile To fair hostess Merriment, Down beside the pasture Trent; For he left the merry tale Messenger for spicy ale. Gone, the merry morris din; Gone, the song of Gamelyn; Gone, the tough-belted outlaw Idling in the "grene shawe...