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... character , and he was asked to read a verse , called the " neck verse . " He mumbled some- thing , and the clerk said the regular formula , Legit ut clericus . " It is now used only for ornamental purposes . The old practice of using u ...
... character , and he was asked to read a verse , called the " neck verse . " He mumbled some- thing , and the clerk said the regular formula , Legit ut clericus . " It is now used only for ornamental purposes . The old practice of using u ...
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... character , and of regular spacing gave to printed books the distinctive character which they have now maintained for four cen- turies , and to the printer the unchallenged control of the lines of communication between the retina and ...
... character , and of regular spacing gave to printed books the distinctive character which they have now maintained for four cen- turies , and to the printer the unchallenged control of the lines of communication between the retina and ...
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... characters of the personages , and are such as we light upon in our travels . The horsemen ride on in a good humour through green fields in the April sunshine , and they hold converse . The Miller has drunk too much ale , and will speak ...
... characters of the personages , and are such as we light upon in our travels . The horsemen ride on in a good humour through green fields in the April sunshine , and they hold converse . The Miller has drunk too much ale , and will speak ...
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... character may be divined from an author's writings , Chaucer was a good man , genial , sincere , hearty , temperate of mind , more wise perhaps for this world than the next , but thoroughly humane and friendly with God and men . To this ...
... character may be divined from an author's writings , Chaucer was a good man , genial , sincere , hearty , temperate of mind , more wise perhaps for this world than the next , but thoroughly humane and friendly with God and men . To this ...
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... concrete personalities . The dra- matic element hardly came within Gower's purview . Gower's characters are perambulating moralities - remote , indeed , from the breathing types of the Tabard.1 The 34 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... concrete personalities . The dra- matic element hardly came within Gower's purview . Gower's characters are perambulating moralities - remote , indeed , from the breathing types of the Tabard.1 The 34 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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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.