Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction on the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England: A New Edition, Revised by J. O. Halliwell,...

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H. G. Bohn, 1848 - 600 стор.
 

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Сторінка 194 - And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword.
Сторінка 23 - ... embellishment, and set off their recitals with such marvellous fictions as were calculated to captivate gross and ignorant minds. Thus began stories of adventures with giants and dragons, and witches and enchanters, and all the monstrous extravagances of wild imagination, unguided by judgment and uncorrected by art.
Сторінка 194 - 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 courtiest 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...
Сторінка 488 - ... children three Out of the fire were fled : There they sat, under a thorn, Bare and naked as they were born, Brought out of their bed. A woful man then was he, When he saw them all naked be. The lady said, all so blive, ' For nothing, sir, be ye adrad.
Сторінка 488 - ... of broom, directed him to dry his tears, and amuse himself by playing with the blossoms till his return with his brother. But scarcely had he left the place when a lion, starting from a neighbouring thicket, seized the child, and bore him away into the recesses of the forest. The second son became, in like manner, the prey of an enormous leopard ; and the disconsolate mother, when carried over with her infant to the fatal spot, was with difficulty persuaded to survive the loss of her two elder...
Сторінка 20 - There is hardly any man in modern times who fills so large a space In our history, and of whom we know so little, as Lord Chatham ; he was the greatest Statesman and Orator that this country ever produced.
Сторінка 96 - Merlin quietly answered, that, as her memory seemed rather defective, he would willingly assist it by relating a few circumstances of her past life. He put her in mind of a certain journey to Carduel, from whence the baron returned rather unexpectedly in the night : — " It was by night and not by day ;
Сторінка 90 - The happiness of this family was become proverbial among their neighbours; but the ficnd having discovered, in the wife, an irritability of temper which had hitherto escaped the notice of her husband and children, he applied himself to encourage this infirmity; and with such success, that the good lady, having been betrayed into a trifling dispute with her son...
Сторінка 513 - In wodde to chase the wild dere, And in the feld to ryde a stede, That all men had joy of his dede.
Сторінка 241 - ... of Ardenne, where he was advertised by an angel of his approaching dissolution. He then despatched his page to Felice with the gold ring which he had received from her at parting, and adjured her to come and give directions for his burial. She arrived ; found him dying ; received his last breath ; and, having survived him only fifteen days, was buried in the same grave.

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