Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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Pàgina viii
... written in English . The principles by which I have generally been influenced in my choice of extracts have been , to select passages curious or remarkable , as relating directly to the subject of language ; as possessing intrinsic ...
... written in English . The principles by which I have generally been influenced in my choice of extracts have been , to select passages curious or remarkable , as relating directly to the subject of language ; as possessing intrinsic ...
Pàgina xi
... writing the same word in two or three differ- ent ways . To many readers , this might have been a source of obscurity . It was hence , perhaps , of less consequence to retain it ; but it once occurred to me to print a few sentences , or ...
... writing the same word in two or three differ- ent ways . To many readers , this might have been a source of obscurity . It was hence , perhaps , of less consequence to retain it ; but it once occurred to me to print a few sentences , or ...
Pàgina 16
... written in this book , as it would come into my mind , the year of Grace 1356 in the 34th year that I departed from our countries . Where- fore I pray to all the readers and hearers of this book , if it please them , that they would ...
... written in this book , as it would come into my mind , the year of Grace 1356 in the 34th year that I departed from our countries . Where- fore I pray to all the readers and hearers of this book , if it please them , that they would ...
Pàgina 20
... written or dictated by Aiton , a king of Armenia , who after traversing the most remarkable countries of the east , turned monk at Cyprus . His travels , partly from the rank of the author , and partly from the won- derful adventures ...
... written or dictated by Aiton , a king of Armenia , who after traversing the most remarkable countries of the east , turned monk at Cyprus . His travels , partly from the rank of the author , and partly from the won- derful adventures ...
Pàgina 25
... written in English . This Chronicle was compiled in Latin , by Ralph Higden , a benedictine of St. Werberg's monastery , now the cathedral in Chester . Hig- den was born in the reign of Henry III . though in what year is unknown ; but ...
... written in English . This Chronicle was compiled in Latin , by Ralph Higden , a benedictine of St. Werberg's monastery , now the cathedral in Chester . Hig- den was born in the reign of Henry III . though in what year is unknown ; but ...
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Pàgina 463 - He had a walk for a 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. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to preach before the king's majesty now.
Pàgina 436 - 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.
Pàgina 259 - ... 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.
Pàgina 463 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Pàgina 464 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece ; 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. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen...
Pàgina 252 - I, according to my copy, have done set it in imprint, to the intent that noble men may see and learn the noble acts of chivalry, the gentle and virtuous deeds that some knights used in those days, by which they came to honour; and how they that were vicious were punished and oft put to shame and rebuke...
Pàgina 464 - 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 divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Pàgina 252 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.
Pàgina 259 - 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...
Pàgina 462 - He will not have it defended by Man, or Man's power, but by His Word only, by the which He hath evermore defended it, and that by a way far above man's power or reason, as all the stories of the Bible make mention.