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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... hands of young and uninformed readers , I have thought it of consequence to mark distinctly the great literary æras , with a view less to give information , than to stimulate enquiry . For various literary sketches and remarks ( par ...
... hands of young and uninformed readers , I have thought it of consequence to mark distinctly the great literary æras , with a view less to give information , than to stimulate enquiry . For various literary sketches and remarks ( par ...
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... hands of the monks , were mixed up with various legendary addi- tions of their own , into treatises , under the title of Mirabilia Mundi ; which contributing to awaken still more the desire to visit those wonderful countries , several ...
... hands of the monks , were mixed up with various legendary addi- tions of their own , into treatises , under the title of Mirabilia Mundi ; which contributing to awaken still more the desire to visit those wonderful countries , several ...
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... since , was in the hands of an antiquary in London . Such was the taste for marvellous his- tories in those times of wonderment and ignorance , that Gyraldus Cambrensis , whe wrote about the year 1200 , in his book on 20 MANDEVILLE .
... since , was in the hands of an antiquary in London . Such was the taste for marvellous his- tories in those times of wonderment and ignorance , that Gyraldus Cambrensis , whe wrote about the year 1200 , in his book on 20 MANDEVILLE .
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... hand . These men forsake tilling of land , and keepen pas- ture for beasts . They use long beards and locks hang ing down behind their heads . They use no craft of flax , of wool , of metal , ne of merchandize , but ... hands TREVISA . $ 3.
... hand . These men forsake tilling of land , and keepen pas- ture for beasts . They use long beards and locks hang ing down behind their heads . They use no craft of flax , of wool , of metal , ne of merchandize , but ... hands TREVISA . $ 3.
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... hands instead of staves , and fight against them that trust most to them . These men ben variable and unsted- fast , treacherous , and guileful . Who that dealeth with them needeth more to be ware of guile , than of craft , of peace ...
... hands instead of staves , and fight against them that trust most to them . These men ben variable and unsted- fast , treacherous , and guileful . Who that dealeth with them needeth more to be ware of guile , than of craft , of peace ...
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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.