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... poetical point of view it is perhaps the poorest literature known . The Metrical Paraphrase of certain parts of Scripture attributed to a writer of the name of Caedmon , and the poem of Beo- wulf , are almost the only considerable poetical ...
... poetical point of view it is perhaps the poorest literature known . The Metrical Paraphrase of certain parts of Scripture attributed to a writer of the name of Caedmon , and the poem of Beo- wulf , are almost the only considerable poetical ...
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... poetical prose than the chronicles which have been pre- The second volume of Wharton's Anglia Sacra contains a long letter from Henry of Huntingdon to his friend Walter , Abbot of Ramsay ( De Episcopis sui temporis ) , which is full of ...
... poetical prose than the chronicles which have been pre- The second volume of Wharton's Anglia Sacra contains a long letter from Henry of Huntingdon to his friend Walter , Abbot of Ramsay ( De Episcopis sui temporis ) , which is full of ...
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... poetical work , entitled ' De Nova Poetria ' ( On the New Poetry ) , has been several times printed : it " is dedicated , " Warton observes , " to Pope Innocent the Third ; and its intention was to recommend and illustrate the new and ...
... poetical work , entitled ' De Nova Poetria ' ( On the New Poetry ) , has been several times printed : it " is dedicated , " Warton observes , " to Pope Innocent the Third ; and its intention was to recommend and illustrate the new and ...
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... poetical antiquaries , was the poem made accessible to the public , till M. Michel was enabled to produce his edi- tion of it ( of which the impression , however , was very limited ) by the liberality of the French government . But ...
... poetical antiquaries , was the poem made accessible to the public , till M. Michel was enabled to produce his edi- tion of it ( of which the impression , however , was very limited ) by the liberality of the French government . But ...
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... poetical protégés or celebrators of Queen Adelais is the unknown author of a poem of be- tween 800 and 900 verses on the Pilgrimage of St. Brandan . There were , it appears , in the sixth century two Irish ecclesiastics of the name of ...
... poetical protégés or celebrators of Queen Adelais is the unknown author of a poem of be- tween 800 and 900 verses on the Pilgrimage of St. Brandan . There were , it appears , in the sixth century two Irish ecclesiastics of the name of ...
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Página 239 - He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do : and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Página 84 - my lady prioresse; And ye, sir clerk, lat be your shamfastnesse, 840 Ne studieth noght; ley hond to, every man.' Anon to drawen every wight bigan, And shortly for to tellen, as it was, Were it by aventure, or sort,
Página 149 - CHARLEMAGNE'S TRAVELS to CONSTANTINOPLE and JERUSALEM, a Norman-French Poem of the Twelfth Century, now first printed from the original MS. in the British Museum, EDITED by FRANCISQUE MICHEL...
Página 242 - Saxon at this day, yet it is not so Courtly nor so currant as our Southerne English is: no more is the far Westerne mans speach. Ye shall therefore take the vsuall speach of the Court, and that of London and the shires lying about London within Ix. myles, and not much aboue.
Página 231 - I should not leave myself a spoon, there shall no poor neighbour of mine bear no loss by my chance, happened in my house. I pray you be, with my children and your household, merry in God...
Página 262 - 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...
Página 11 - Roman marriages at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century were childless.
Página 261 - I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many mo' Than I with pen have skill to show.
Página 76 - He wiste that a man was repentant. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe although him sore smerte. Therfore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. His tippet was ay farsed ful of knives, And pinnes, for to given fayre wives.
Página 124 - And ye shall understand, that I have put this Book out of Latin into French, and translated it again out of French into English, that •every Man of my Nation may understand it...