Periods of European Literature, Volume 4George Saintsbury William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... Story of Thebes , a transcript from a French rendering of Statius , and Guy of Warwick ; later , in more didactic and religious mood , a Dance of Macabre , The Falls of Princes , after Boccaccio's De Casibus Illustrium Virorum ( the ...
... Story of Thebes , a transcript from a French rendering of Statius , and Guy of Warwick ; later , in more didactic and religious mood , a Dance of Macabre , The Falls of Princes , after Boccaccio's De Casibus Illustrium Virorum ( the ...
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... Story of Thebes he forces an unflattering contrast with the Canterbury Tales ; in the others , of which the Falls of Princes is rhythmically the least jarring , he wearily repoints the mediæval moral to human folly . of Glass . The ...
... Story of Thebes he forces an unflattering contrast with the Canterbury Tales ; in the others , of which the Falls of Princes is rhythmically the least jarring , he wearily repoints the mediæval moral to human folly . of Glass . The ...
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... story . Its compara- tive shortness saves it from the dreariness which irri- tates the modern reader of his " histories " and legends . He manages his rhythm and his stanza better than we should expect ; and , though he is , it is true ...
... story . Its compara- tive shortness saves it from the dreariness which irri- tates the modern reader of his " histories " and legends . He manages his rhythm and his stanza better than we should expect ; and , though he is , it is true ...
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... story of Grand Amour and Bel Pucell is not yet a mere quaintness : the poet is inspired by the Temple of Glass , and repeats the scholastic lesson of Capella ; his Gobelive retells the familiar slanders against women : he rewhirls his ...
... story of Grand Amour and Bel Pucell is not yet a mere quaintness : the poet is inspired by the Temple of Glass , and repeats the scholastic lesson of Capella ; his Gobelive retells the familiar slanders against women : he rewhirls his ...
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... story , in dying recollection of days of greater account . One Thomas Chestre , of the reign of Henry VI . , made a version of the tale of Sir Launfal from the fifth Lay of Marie of France . This poem , 2 in the Sir Thopas metre , is ...
... story , in dying recollection of days of greater account . One Thomas Chestre , of the reign of Henry VI . , made a version of the tale of Sir Launfal from the fifth Lay of Marie of France . This poem , 2 in the Sir Thopas metre , is ...
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