Palmerin of England, Količina 1Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807 - 438 strani |
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Stran xlv - Part of the no lesse rare then excellent and stately History, of the Famous and fortunate Prince Palmerin of England „ . . translated out of French by AM Second Edition, with the original blank leaf
Stran xlii - He began it with some care, but he soon resigned the task to others less qualified than himself; for certain it is, that at least three-fourths of the book were translated by one who neither understood French, nor English, nor the story which he was translating.
Stran xxviii - Colet," 8vo. Paris, 1573. The 1 588 edition is entitled, " The famous pleasant and variable Historic of Palladine of England, discoursing of honorable Adventures, of Knightly deedes of Armes and Chivalrie : enterlaced likewise with the love of sundrie noble personages, &c. Translated out of French by AM, one of the Messengers of her Majesties Chamber. At London, Printed by Edward Allde for John Perin.
Stran vi - England," seeing which the licentiate said, "Let the Olive be made firewood of at once and burned until no ashes even are left; and let that Palm of England be kept and preserved as a thing that stands alone, and let such another case be made for it as that which Alexander found among the spoils of Darius and set aside for the safe keeping of the works of the poet Homer.
Stran xliv - In Amadis of Greece may be found the Zelmane of the Arcadia, the Masque of Cupid of the Faery Queen, and the Florizel of the Winter's Tale.
Stran 57 - ... attend a strange and rare event: on a sudden was arrived in the emperor's palace, a comely damsel mounted on a courser as white as a swan, bearing trappings of the same colour of fringed velvet, powdered with little roses of gold, which were set in such order as greatly to adorn the palfrey. She wore a French robe of new invention, made for travelling, bordered with rolls of gold, interwoven one with the other; her hair fastened with a thread of the same colour, and thrown back, and a chaplet...
Stran 37 - ... the thickness of the trees made his passage more tenebrous than else it would have been, so that, very hardly he could find his way. Wandering on still, using his mind with several imaginations, at last to the comfort of himself and joy of his esquire, who sorrowed to see his lord so suddenly pensive, he espied a gallant troop of ladies, bearing in their hands lighted torches, each one well moyntcd on a lust)' steed, attired all in black, and framing their voices to great lamentations.
Stran xxxiii - And in the Epistle Dedicatory of the third part to the Right Honourable Henrie Vere, earl of Oxenford, Sec., he says, " I proceeded no farther ia translation when these three books had their prime impressions ; for rumour talking of a fourth booke, which (as then) by no means could be compassed, I remained contented with these, and promised to effect the other when it should come to my hands; but having that fourth booke now in mine owne possession, with an imperfect portion of a fift also...
Stran 160 - I would not for the world miss the end of this marvellous encounter. Continue, Pacito! Nay, lad, go back to the beginning of the sentence once again.' Pacito read: 'The Knight of Death on the next morning came forth before his tent, attired in black armour whereon was painted in divers places the semblance of a woman's face descried through shrubs . . .' That would be the sorceress Eutropa,' the Colonel commented knowingly, his mouth full of pudding.
Stran xl - Florian has his wit, hi< goodhumour, and his courage to excuse him, — these are not sufficient, and he is never respected by the reader as Galaor is ; what is excused in the one as a weakness, is condemned in the other as a vice. This is unfortunately managed, for as he is the cause of the final war, his character should have been clearer: — had Targiana...