Memoirs of the Life of Froissart: With an Essay on His Works ; and a Criticism on His HistoryJean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Sainte-Palaye (M. de La Curne de, Jean-Baptiste de La Curne) Nichols and Son, 1801 - 211 стор. |
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Сторінка 104 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Сторінка 37 - ... at his court. His moft ufual occupation, during that time, was to amufe Gafton, after his fupper, by reading to him the romance of Meliador, which he had brought with him. Every evening he repaired to the caftle at midnight, •which was the hour the count fat down to table, and none dared to interrupt the reading. Gafton himfelf, who liftened with the greateft attention, only fpoke to afk queftions concerning the book ; and he never fent him away, before he had made him drink all the wine which...
Сторінка 22 - ... with his portmanteau behind him, and followed by a greyhound. The king of Scotland, and many lords whose names he has preserved to us, treated him so handsomely, that he could have wished to have returned thither. William, earl of Douglas, lodged him during fifteen days in his castle of Dalkeith, five miles from Edinburgh. We are ignorant of the date of this journey ; and of another, which he made into North Wales, that I belicve must have been about the same time.
Сторінка 4 - ... themselves from twelve years of age, being confirmed by habitude, were continued even to his old age, and perhaps never left him. The mind and heart of Froissart being not yet sufficiently occupied, his love for history filled up that void which his passion for pleasure left ; and became to him an inexhaustible source of amusement. He had but just left school, and was...
Сторінка 35 - Foix, at the age of fifty-nine years, was the moft vigorous, the handfomeft, and beft-made man of that period. Adroit at all exercifes, valorous, an accomplifhed Captain, noble and magnificent, he never fuffered any warrior who waited on him to depart without carrying with him proofs of his liberality: his caftle was the rendezvous of all thofe brave Captains who had diftinguifhed themfelves in combats, or in tournaments.
Сторінка 33 - ... travellers agreed perfectly well together the knight, who had served in all the wars in Gascony, was equally desirous to learn everything which related to those that Froissart was acquainted with; and Froissart, more in a situation to satisfy him than any one. was not less curious to be informed of those events in which the knight had borne a part : they mutually communicated all they knew, with à reciprocal complaisance.
Сторінка 21 - John pafled on his return to England. There is in his Poems a paftoral, which feems to allude only to that event. With regard to his travels during the time he was attached to the fervice of the Queen, he employed fix months in Scotland, and penetrated as far as the Highlands. He travelled on horfeback with his portmanteau behind him, and followed by a greyhound.
Сторінка 26 - Froiflart had had, he had alfo been of the houfehold of Edward III. and even of that of John King of France. As there are feveral other Princes and Lords of whofe houfeholds he had been, or whom he calls his Lords and...
Сторінка 110 - ... followed in writing history. He likewise informs us, that he had not the intention of making a dry chronicle, wherein facts are simply related with their dates, and in the order they happened, but that he was anxious to write what may be called in truth history, in which the events were presented with all the circumstances which had attended them. The details which lay open the secret springs by which mankind act, are precisely those which unveil the character and the very heart of the personages...
Сторінка 167 - I do not believe there is anything which can equal the sublimity of this morsel of history, nothing which can more elevate the heart and mind. Others, of a very different nature, have their value in their simplicity : such is the episode of the love of the king of England for the countess of Salisbury ; the tender and affecting recital of which does not yield to the most ingenious and best- written romances.