English Literature: From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, Band 10Macmillan, 1906 - 500 Seiten |
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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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Seite 446 - 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.
Seite 319 - ... 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...
Seite 381 - 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.
Seite 319 - 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.
Seite 427 - 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...
Seite 101 - 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...
Seite 257 - ... 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.
Seite 450 - 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...
Seite 309 - 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.
Seite 280 - 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...