From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIIIMacmillan, 1903 |
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Pàgina xiv
... King Edward III . Geoffrey Chaucer ( National Portrait Gallery ) Chaucer's Grave in Westminster Abbey . 99 138 139 to face page Portrait of Chaucer ( Early XVth Century MS . ) House at Woodstock A Page from the Kelmscott Edition 140 ...
... King Edward III . Geoffrey Chaucer ( National Portrait Gallery ) Chaucer's Grave in Westminster Abbey . 99 138 139 to face page Portrait of Chaucer ( Early XVth Century MS . ) House at Woodstock A Page from the Kelmscott Edition 140 ...
Pàgina xv
... King James II . of Scotland • From " A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode " printed by Wynkyn de Worde · " King John and Bishoppe " from " the Percy Folio . Illustration from Skelton's " Balade of the Scottysshe Kynge " . Title - page of ...
... King James II . of Scotland • From " A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode " printed by Wynkyn de Worde · " King John and Bishoppe " from " the Percy Folio . Illustration from Skelton's " Balade of the Scottysshe Kynge " . Title - page of ...
Pàgina 4
... King Arthur about 544 , a date which , even if imaginary as regards the particular event coupled with it by tradition , may be fairly taken to denote that of the final victory of the Saxon over the Celt in South Britain . A generation ...
... King Arthur about 544 , a date which , even if imaginary as regards the particular event coupled with it by tradition , may be fairly taken to denote that of the final victory of the Saxon over the Celt in South Britain . A generation ...
Pàgina 7
... King of the Ostrogoths about 375. If Widsith is a real person , and the poem a genuine record of his bygone days , it must have been composed early in the fifth century . He speaks , how- ever , distinctly of his comradeship with the ...
... King of the Ostrogoths about 375. If Widsith is a real person , and the poem a genuine record of his bygone days , it must have been composed early in the fifth century . He speaks , how- ever , distinctly of his comradeship with the ...
Pàgina 8
... King of Gotens with his gifts was good to me ; He , the Prince of burg - indwellers , gave to me an armlet On the which six hundred scats of beaten gold Scored were , in scillings reckoned . And another gift Ealdhild gave to me , Folk ...
... King of Gotens with his gifts was good to me ; He , the Prince of burg - indwellers , gave to me an armlet On the which six hundred scats of beaten gold Scored were , in scillings reckoned . And another gift Ealdhild gave to me , Folk ...
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From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIII, by Richard Garnett Richard Garnett,Edmund Gosse Visualització de fragments - 1935 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 214 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Pàgina 350 - With eyes cast up into the maidens' tower, And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love; The stately seats, the ladies bright of hue, The dances short, long tales of great delight; With words and looks that tigers could but rue, Where each of us did plead the other's right...
Pàgina 214 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
Pàgina 77 - We must now proceed to the two great poems which were produced at the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century.
Pàgina 286 - Worship all ye that lovers be this May, For of your bliss the kalends are begun, And sing with us, away, winter away, Come, summer come, the sweet season and sun.
Pàgina 350 - Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth. Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise ; Recording soft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.
Pàgina 347 - My lute, awake, perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun, And when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.
Pàgina 347 - The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection: So that I am past remedy; Whereby my lute and I have done. Proud of the spoil...
Pàgina 166 - And with that word, naked, with ful good herte, Among the serpents in the pit she sterte, And ther she chees to han hir buryinge. Anoon the neddres gonne...
Pàgina 256 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.