Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - English literature |
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... turned it from Latin into English as it is now done . Sometimes he set down word for word , sometimes meaning for meaning , as he could translate most plainly and clearly in spite of the various and manifold worldly cares which often ...
... turned it from Latin into English as it is now done . Sometimes he set down word for word , sometimes meaning for meaning , as he could translate most plainly and clearly in spite of the various and manifold worldly cares which often ...
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... turned in the old direction . The first English imaginative poem after the Con- quest starts with the attempt to link the for- tunes of our island with those of Troy , and this grafting upon English history of the classical traditions ...
... turned in the old direction . The first English imaginative poem after the Con- quest starts with the attempt to link the for- tunes of our island with those of Troy , and this grafting upon English history of the classical traditions ...
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... turned to English in his Latin - named Confessio Amantis . Gower also wrote French balades which have real literary merit , but he is the last English poet who seriously used a foreign language as the medium of poetry ; and though later ...
... turned to English in his Latin - named Confessio Amantis . Gower also wrote French balades which have real literary merit , but he is the last English poet who seriously used a foreign language as the medium of poetry ; and though later ...
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... turned into English The Gospel's holy lore , After that little wit that me Thou thoughtest how that it might well My Lord and God has lent . To mickle profit turn , If English folk , for love of Christ , It readily would learn And ...
... turned into English The Gospel's holy lore , After that little wit that me Thou thoughtest how that it might well My Lord and God has lent . To mickle profit turn , If English folk , for love of Christ , It readily would learn And ...
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... on the Astrolabe . Elizabeth Chaucer , for whose noviciate at the Abbey of Barking John of Gaunt paid a large sum in 1381 , was probably the poet's daughter . Petrarch had recently turned into Latin from the Italian of 60 Chaucer.
... on the Astrolabe . Elizabeth Chaucer , for whose noviciate at the Abbey of Barking John of Gaunt paid a large sum in 1381 , was probably the poet's daughter . Petrarch had recently turned into Latin from the Italian of 60 Chaucer.
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Page 369 - ... shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 368 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 372 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt ; the...
Page 409 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 366 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 360 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Page 370 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice.
Page 353 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 369 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 373 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st...