Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 - Authors, English |
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... the work be so fortunate as to be sanc- tioned by the public approbation . Some of the extracts towards the latter end of the first volume may possibly appear to contain as many , and even more obsolete words , PREFACE . xi.
... the work be so fortunate as to be sanc- tioned by the public approbation . Some of the extracts towards the latter end of the first volume may possibly appear to contain as many , and even more obsolete words , PREFACE . xi.
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... appear highly probable from the following extracts . Still , when he relates stories of an improbable na- ture , he commonly prefaces them with- 66 They say , " or " men say - but I have not seen it ; " though he is to blame in not ...
... appear highly probable from the following extracts . Still , when he relates stories of an improbable na- ture , he commonly prefaces them with- 66 They say , " or " men say - but I have not seen it ; " though he is to blame in not ...
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... appears , that the passion for visiting the Holy Land did not cease among us , till late in the reign of Henry the Eighth . Warton men- tions one William Wey , Fellow of Eton Col- lege , who celebrated Mass , cum cantu organico , at ...
... appears , that the passion for visiting the Holy Land did not cease among us , till late in the reign of Henry the Eighth . Warton men- tions one William Wey , Fellow of Eton Col- lege , who celebrated Mass , cum cantu organico , at ...
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... appears that the language had under- gone such alterations , that many words used by Trevisa had ceased to be employed , and even to be understood . This great change , was especially promoted by the renowned poets Chaucer and Gower ...
... appears that the language had under- gone such alterations , that many words used by Trevisa had ceased to be employed , and even to be understood . This great change , was especially promoted by the renowned poets Chaucer and Gower ...
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... appear that any copy of this translation now remains . It is mentioned by Caxton , in the preface to his edition of the English Polychronicon . He was moreover the translator of several other works ; as Bartholomew Hautville , de ...
... appear that any copy of this translation now remains . It is mentioned by Caxton , in the preface to his edition of the English Polychronicon . He was moreover the translator of several other works ; as Bartholomew Hautville , de ...
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Page 428 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 257 - Christian knights; and now I dare say,' said Sir Ector, 'thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand; and thou were the courtliest knight that ever bare shield; and thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse; and thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman ; and thou were the kindest man that ever...
Page 455 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece; so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor...
Page 257 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 455 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Page 145 - And last of all, as heartily and as lovingly as ever father blessed his child in earth, I give you the blessing of Our Lord and of me, which of his infinite mercy increase you in all virtue and good living; and that your blood may by his grace from kindred to kindred multiply in this earth to his service, in such wise as after the departing from this wretched world here, ye and they may glorify him eternally amongst his angels in heaven. Written of mine hand, The day of my departing fro this land....
Page 456 - ... that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours. And some alms he gave to the poor, and all this did he of the said farm.
Page 456 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn (me) any other thing ; and so, I think, other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Page 246 - AFTER that I had accomplished and finished divers histories, as well of contemplation as of other historial and worldly acts of great conquerors and princes, and also certain books of ensamples and doctrine, many noble and divers gentlemen of this realm of England came and demanded...
Page 50 - Sheffield, a mercer, came into a house and asked for meat, and especially he asked after eggs; and the good wife answered that she could speak no French, and the merchant was angry, for he also could speak no French, but would have had eggs, and she understood him not.