English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Količina 6

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Stran 144 - FASCICULI ZIZANIORUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS WYCLIF CUM TRITICO. Ascribed to THOMAS NETTER, of WALDEN, Provincial of the Carmelite Order in England, and Confessor to King Henry the Fifth. Edited by the Rev. WW SHIRLEY, MA, Tutor and late Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.
Stran 169 - I sawe, methought, before that houre, For quhich sodayne abate, anon astert The blude of all my body to my hert. And though I...
Stran 233 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Stran 52 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will show thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Stran 347 - His works were partly published in print by William Caxton, in the reign of Henry VI., increased by William Thynne, esquire, in the reign of Henry VIII. ; corrected and twice increased, through mine own painful labours, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to wit, in the year 1561; and again beautified with notes by me, collected out of divers records and monuments, which I delivered to my loving friend, Thomas Speght; and he having drawn the same into a good form and method, as also explained the old...
Stran 258 - PASTON LETTERS. ORIGINAL LETTERS, written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III., by various Persons of Rank or Consequence.
Stran 348 - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the Former Editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed ; By John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon, Deceased : Together •with a Glossary, By a Student of the same College.
Stran 347 - Chavcer, | newly Printed. | To that which was done in the former Impression, | thus much is now added. | 1 In the life of Chaucer many things inserted. 2 The whole worke by old Copies reformed.
Stran 124 - And in the wyntir, for the way was deep. Unto the brigge I dressid me also, And ther the bootmen took upon me keep For they my riot kneewen fern ago. With hem I was itugged to and fro, So wel was him that I with wolde fare, For riot paieth largely everemo; He styntith nevere til his purs be bare. Othir than 'maistir' callid was I nevere Among this meynee— in myn audience.
Stran 168 - The bird, the beste, the fisch eke in the see, They lyve in fredome, everich in his kynd, And I a man, and lakkith libertee. 185 Quhat schall I seyne? Quhat resoun may I fynd That Fortune suld do so?

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