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... Latin Norman - French , and primitive Celtic literature of early Britain . All these languages were spoken and written by our forefathers in this country ; Latin in church and eloister , by diplomatists and historians ; French at court ...
... Latin Norman - French , and primitive Celtic literature of early Britain . All these languages were spoken and written by our forefathers in this country ; Latin in church and eloister , by diplomatists and historians ; French at court ...
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... Latin was used by the learned and by the clergy ; French was the language of the schools , the law courts , the merchants , and the court . No English king , indeed , spoke English habitually before Henry IV . The town class and gentry ...
... Latin was used by the learned and by the clergy ; French was the language of the schools , the law courts , the merchants , and the court . No English king , indeed , spoke English habitually before Henry IV . The town class and gentry ...
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... Latin treatise called Ludus Scacchorum . As continued to be the case after his migration to England , he printed usually upon paper made in the Low Countries , and rarely used vellum . In 1476 Caxton left Bruges to practise his newly ac ...
... Latin treatise called Ludus Scacchorum . As continued to be the case after his migration to England , he printed usually upon paper made in the Low Countries , and rarely used vellum . In 1476 Caxton left Bruges to practise his newly ac ...
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... Latin Ars Moriendi . Caxton himself edited all the books he printed , and he himself translated or personally supervised the translating of no less than twenty - two , including the Troy Book and The Golden Legend . He produced in all ...
... Latin Ars Moriendi . Caxton himself edited all the books he printed , and he himself translated or personally supervised the translating of no less than twenty - two , including the Troy Book and The Golden Legend . He produced in all ...
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... Latin elegiacs ; it is primarily a metrical chronicle of the great social upheaval of 1381 , denouncing Wat Tyler , the rabble rout , the maddened serfs , and the Lollards in no measured terms ; but pointing out at the same time the ...
... Latin elegiacs ; it is primarily a metrical chronicle of the great social upheaval of 1381 , denouncing Wat Tyler , the rabble rout , the maddened serfs , and the Lollards in no measured terms ; but pointing out at the same time the ...
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Seite 98 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Seite 400 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Seite 361 - Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
Seite 240 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Seite 182 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes...
Seite 165 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Seite 222 - This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Seite 382 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me...
Seite 249 - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth and overseen his owne writings; but since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right...
Seite 217 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.