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Page xiv
... turn to the opening chapters of the book . If we compare these with the old romances which supplied the materials for them , we see at once how Malory has converted prose into poetry , giving life and beauty to the clods of earth , and ...
... turn to the opening chapters of the book . If we compare these with the old romances which supplied the materials for them , we see at once how Malory has converted prose into poetry , giving life and beauty to the clods of earth , and ...
Page xviii
... turn to the Sangreal , tant a part of Malory's book . THE SANGREAL . or Holy Grail , the Quest of which forms so impor- The word ' Grail ' means a dish , a drinking vessel , 1 Renaissance in Italy , ' by J. A. Symonds , iv . 17 . 2 The ...
... turn to the Sangreal , tant a part of Malory's book . THE SANGREAL . or Holy Grail , the Quest of which forms so impor- The word ' Grail ' means a dish , a drinking vessel , 1 Renaissance in Italy , ' by J. A. Symonds , iv . 17 . 2 The ...
Page xxxii
... turn again to my matter , ' which is not in Caxton's edition , appears here , as in all later editions1 . The edition of 1529 is in the British Museum , and wants the Title , Preface , and part of the Table of Contents . In 1557 the ...
... turn again to my matter , ' which is not in Caxton's edition , appears here , as in all later editions1 . The edition of 1529 is in the British Museum , and wants the Title , Preface , and part of the Table of Contents . In 1557 the ...
Page xliv
... turn round and give the awkward cavalier a blow with its wooden sword . He attended his lord in the chase , and learnt all its arts ; he attended him also in many offices which we should now call menial , but which were then held to be ...
... turn round and give the awkward cavalier a blow with its wooden sword . He attended his lord in the chase , and learnt all its arts ; he attended him also in many offices which we should now call menial , but which were then held to be ...
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... turn and they shall increase . therefore withdraw you unto your lodg- ing , and rest you as soon as ye may , and reward your good knights with gold and with silver , for they have well de- served it ; there may no riches be too dear for ...
... turn and they shall increase . therefore withdraw you unto your lodg- ing , and rest you as soon as ye may , and reward your good knights with gold and with silver , for they have well de- served it ; there may no riches be too dear for ...
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Page v - Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so...
Page v - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 462 - Then Sir Bedivere cried: Ah my lord Arthur, what shall become of me, now ye go from me and leave me here alone among mine enemies? Comfort thyself...
Page xxxvi - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 9 - When Sir Ector beheld the sword he returned again and came to the church, and there they...
Page 469 - Morte d'Arthur. — SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. ' 'It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Page 468 - Launcelot, he said, thou were head of all 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.
Page 462 - Bedivere, take thou Excalibur, my good sword, and go with it to yonder water side, and when thou comest there, I charge thee throw my sword in that water, and come again, and tell me what thou there seest. My lord, said Bedivere, your commandment shall be done, and lightly bring you word again.
Page xxxi - ... every man will say it is a great cruelty to put to death such honest persons, who by their own wills put themselves into your grace to save their company.
Page xxiii - Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to tune his mind Or manners more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility?