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twg_000012922600 | of Caister by the duke of Norfolk, a multitude of details give something of a modern character to this collection, the oldest series of private English letters we possess. In spite of aristocratic alliances, these people think and write like worthy citizens, economical, practical and careful. During her husband's absen... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922601 | she looks after his property, renews leases, collects rents. Reading her letters one seems to see her home as neat and clean as a Dutch house. If a disaster occurs, instead of wasting her time in lamentations, she repairs it to the best of her ability and takes precautions for the future. She loves her husband, and may... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922602 | when, knowing him to be ill, she writes: "I would ye were at home, if it were your ease, and your sore might be as well looked to here as it is where ye be, now liefer than a gown though it were of scarlet."[] John Paston, shut in the Fleet prison, where he makes the acquaintance of Lord Henry | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922603 | Percy, for prisons were then a place where the best society met, sends Margaret playful verses to amuse her: My lord Persy and all this house, Recommend them to yow, dogge catte and mowse, And wysshe ye had be here stille, For they sey ye are a good gille. The old and new times are no longer so far apart; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922604 | in such a prison, Fielding and Sheridan would not have felt out of place.[] Books of advice to travellers, itineraries or guides to foreign parts,[] vocabularies, dictionaries, and grammars,[] commercial guides, the "Libelle of Englyshe Polycye,"[] are also signs of the times. This last document is a characteristic one... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922605 | (the verses excepted) to thousands of consular reports with which "Livres Jaunes" and "Blue Books" have since been filled. The author points out for each country the goods to be imported and exported, and the guileful practices to be feared in foreign parts; he insists on the necessity of England's having a strong navy... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922606 | rival countries, so that Parliament may vote the necessary supplies. England should be the first on the sea, and able to impose "pease by auctorit." She should establish herself more firmly at Calais; only the word Calais would be altered now and replaced by Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, or the Cape. The author enumerates ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922607 | Portugal, Genoa, &c.; he has even information on the subject of Iceland, and its great cod-fish trade. He wishes for a spirited colonial policy; it is not yet a question of India, but only of Ireland; at any price "the wylde Iryshe" must be conquered. He dwells at length on the misdeeds of the wicked Malouins, who are ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922608 | nothing, obey no one, and are protected by the innumerable rocks of their bays, amidst which they alone know the passages. Conclusion: Kepte (keep) than the see about in specialle Whiche of England is the rounde walle; As thoughe England were lykened to a cit, And the walle enviroun were the see; Keep than the see that... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922609 | of Englond, And then is Englond kepte by Goddes sonde. The anxious injunctions scattered in the "Libelle" must not be taken, any more than Parliamentary speeches of later date, as implying that the nation had no confidence in itself. The instinct of nationality, formerly so vague, has grown from year to year since the ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922610 | of everything English; they are proud of their navy, in spite of its defects; of their army, in spite of the reverses it suffered; of the wealth of the Commons; they even boast of their robbers. Anything one does should be well done; if they have thieves, these thieves will prove the best in the world. The testimony of... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922611 | John Fortescue, knight, Lord Chief Justice, and Chancellor of England, who must have known about the thieves, is decisive on this point. He writes, in English prose, a treatise on absolute and limited monarchy[]; admiration for his country breaks out on every page. It is the time of the Two Roses, but it matters little... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922612 | in his day, he does not pay while writing much attention to the Roses. England is the best governed country in the world; it has the best laws; the king can do nothing unless his people consent. In this manner a just balance is maintained: "Our Comons be riche, and therfor they gave to their kyng, at sum tymys quinsime... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922613 | and dismes, and often tymys other grete subsydyes.... This might thay not have done, if they had ben empoveryshyd by their kyng, as the Comons of Fraunce." Fortescue puts forth a theory often confirmed since then: if the Commons rebel sometimes, it is not the pride of wealth that makes them, but tyranny; for, were they... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922614 | far more frequent: "If thay be not poer, thay will never aryse, but if their prince so leve Justice, that he gyve hymself al to tyrannye." It is true that the Commons of France do not rebel (Louis XI. then reigned at Plessis-lez-Tours); Fortescue is shocked at that, and remonstrates against their "lacke of harte." Some... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922615 | there are a great many thieves in England. They are numerous, Fortescue confesses, there is no doubt as to that; but the country finds in them one more cause to be proud: "It hath ben often seen in Englond that three or four thefes, for povertie hath sett upon seven or eight true men and robbyd them al." The thieves | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922616 | of France are incapable of such admirable boldness. On this account "it is right seld that French men be hangyd for robberye," says Fortescue, who had never, judging by the way he talks, passed by Montfaucon, nor come across poor Villon; "thay have no hertys to do so terryble an acte. There be therfor mo men hangyd in ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922617 | a yere for robberye and manslaughter than their be hangid in Fraunce for such cause of crime in seven yers."[] As a judge, Fortescue hangs the thieves; as an Englishman he admires their performances: the national robber is superior to all others. An engraving in _Punch_ represents a London drunkard carried off by two p... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922618 | "They couldn't take my Father up like that," says one of them, "it takes six Policemen to run him in!" If this boy ever becomes Chief Justice, he will write, in the same spirit, another treatise like Fortescue's. Thus is popularised in that century the art of prose; the uses made of it are not unprecedented, but they a... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922619 | more frequent. This is one more sign that the nation settles and concentrates; does not stand on tiptoe, but sits comfortably. Previous examples are followed; there are schools of prose writers as of poets. Bishop Pecock employs Wyclif's irony to defend what Wyclif had attacked; pilgrimages, friars, the possessions of ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922620 | eloquence is embittered by sarcasms; he continues a tradition, dear to the English race, and one which, constantly renewed, will come down to Swift and to the humourists of the eighteenth century. Boiling over with passion, he does his best to speak coldly and without moving a finger. Wyclif wants everything to be foun... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922621 | which are not spoken of in it. But then, says Pecock, we are greatly puzzled, for how should we dare to wear breeches, which the Bible does not mention either? How justify the use of clocks to know the hour? And with great seriousness, in a calm voice, he discusses the question: "For though in eeldist daies, and though... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922622 | Scripture, mensioun is maad of orologis, schewing the houris of the dai bi the schadew maad bi the sunne in a cercle, certis nevere, save in late daies, was eny clok telling the houris of the dai and nyht bi peise and bi stroke; and open it is that noughwhere in holi scripture is expresse mensioun made of eny suche." | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922623 | Where does the Bible say that it should be translated into English?[] In the same tone of voice Wyclif had pointed out, in the preceding century, the abuses of the Church; in the same tone of voice the author of "Gulliver" will point out, three centuries later, the happy use that might be made of Irish children as butc... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922624 | The thing to be remembered for the moment is that the number of prose-writers increases. They write more abundantly than formerly; they translate old treatises; they unveil the mysteries of hunting, fishing, and heraldry; they compose chronicles; they rid the language of its stiffness. To this contributes Sir Thomas Ma... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922625 | the whole cycle of Britain. The work was published by Caxton, the first English printer, who was also a prose-writer.[] They even write on love; prose now retaliates upon verse, and trespasses on the domains of poetry.[] The diminished importance of the nobles and of the feudal aristocracy, the increased importance of ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922626 | the various elements of the nation nearer to each other, and this fact will have a considerable effect on literature: the day will come when the same author can address the whole audience and write for the whole nation. In a hundred years it will be necessary to take into consideration the judgment of the English peopl... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922627 | and "low men," on intellectual things; there will stand in the pit a mob whose declared tastes and exigences will cause the most stubborn of the Elizabethan poets to yield. Ben Jonson will be less classic and more English than he would have liked to be; he intended to introduce a chorus into his tragedy of "Sejanus"; t... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922628 | the pit prevented him; he grumbles, but submits.[] The thrift and the toil of the English peasant and craftsman in the fifteenth century had thus an unexpected influence on literature: they contributed to form an audience for Shakespeare. IV. The new times are preparing, in still another manner; the gods are to come do... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922629 | among men. While the ancient literature is dying out, another is growing which is to replace it in France, but which will continue it, transformed and rejuvenated, in England. Rome and Athens will give England a signal, not laws; but this signal is an important one; happy the nations who have heard it; it was the signa... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922630 | that Italy visited by Chaucer in the fourteenth century, the passion for antiquity goes on increasing; the Latins no longer suffice, the Greeks must be known. Petrarch worshipped a manuscript of Homer, but it was for him a dumb fetish: the fetish has now become a god, and utters oracles that all the world understands. ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922631 | emperors is still standing, and there letters shine with a last lustre. While the foe is at its gates, it rectifies its grammars, goes back to origins, rejects new words, and revives the ancient language of Demosthenes. Never had the town of Constantine been more Greek than on the eve of its destruction.[] The fame of ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922632 | abroad; men come from Italy to hear John Argyropoulos, the Chrysoloras, the famous Chrysococcs, deacon of St. Sophia and chief Saccellary. But the fatal hour is at hand, the era of the Crusades is over; an irresistible ebb has set in; Christendom draws back in its turn. No longer is it necessary to go to Jerusalem to b... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922633 | infidel; he is found at Nicopolis and Kossovo. The illustrious towns of the Greek world fall one after the other, and the exiled grammarians seek shelter with the literate tyrants of Italy, bringing with them their manuscripts. Some, like Theodore Gaza, have been driven from Thessalonica, and teach at Mantua and at Sie... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922634 | On the throne of the Paleologues sits Constantine XII., Dragasss. Brusa is no longer the capital of the Turks; they have left far behind them the town of the green mosques, of the great platanes and tombs of the caliphs, they have crossed the Bosphorus and are established at Salonica, Sophia, Philippopolis. Adrianople ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922635 | Mahomet II. commands them. Opposite the "Castle of Asia," Anatoli Hissar, he has built on the Bosphorus the "Castle of Europe," Roumel Hissar, with rose-coloured towers; he is master of both shores. He approaches nearer to the town, and draws up his troops under the wall facing Europe; he has a hundred and thirty canno... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922636 | 11th of April, . On the 28th of May, the Turks take up their positions for the onset; whilst in Byzantium a long procession of priests and monks, carrying the wood of the true cross, miraculous statues and relics of saints, wends its way for the last time. The assault begins at two o'clock in the morning; part of a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922637 | wall, near the gate of St. Romanus, falls in; the "Cercoporta" gate is taken. The struggle goes on in the heart of the town; the emperor is killed; the basilica erected by Justinian to Divine Wisdom, St. Sophia, which was in the morning filled with a praying multitude, contains now only corpses. The smoke of an immense... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922638 | the sky. All that could flee exiled themselves; the Greeks flocked to Italy. Out of the plundered libraries came a number of manuscripts, with which Nicholas V. and Bessarion enriched Rome and Venice. The result of the disaster was, for intellectual Europe, a new impulse given to classic studies. With the glare of the ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922639 | of dawn; its rays were to illuminate Italy and France, and, further towards the North, England also. FOOTNOTES: [] I try, repeatedly says Stephen Hawes, To followe the trace and all the perfitnes Of my maister Lydgate. "The Historie of Graund Amoure and La Bell Pucle, called the Pastime of Plesure, contayning the Knowl... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922640 | Course of Man's life in this Worlde," London, , 4to, curious woodcuts (reprinted by the Percy Society, , 8vo; the quotation above, p. ). It is an allegory of unendurable dulness, in which Graund Amoure (love of knowledge apparently) visits Science in the Tower of Doctrine, then Grammar, &c. Hawes lived under Henry VII.... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922641 | England, see above, p. ; the greater number of them are found in Hazlitt: "Remains of the early popular Poetry of England," London, , vols. One of the best, "The Wright's Chaste Wife," written in English, about , by Adam de Cobsam, has been published by the Early English Text Society, ed. Furnivall, , with a supplement... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922642 | ; it is the old story of the honest woman, who dismisses her would-be lovers after having made fun of them. That story figures in the "Gesta Romanorum," in the "Arabian Nights," in the collection of Barbazan (story of Constant du Hamel). It has furnished Massinger with the subject of his play, "The Picture," and Musset... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922643 | Quenouille de Barberine."--On the romances of chivalry, see above, pp. ff. A great number of rhymed versions of these romances are of the fifteenth century.--Ex. of pious works in verse, of the same century: Th. Brampton, "Pharaphrase on the seven penitential psalms, ," Percy Society, ; Mirk, "Duties of a Parish Priest... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922644 | (-), "Life of St. Katharine," ed. Horstmann and Furnivall, E.E.T.S., (various other edifying works by the same); many specimens of the same kind are unpublished.--Ex. of chronicles: Andrew de Wyntoun, "Orygynal Cronykil of Scotland," finished, about , ed. Laing, Edinburgh, ff., vols. 8vo; Hardyng (-?), "Chronicle in me... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922645 | Talbot, who knew little about palography, spurious charters establishing England's sovereignty over Scotland; those charters exist at the Record Office, the fraud was proved by Palgrave. All these chronicles are in "rym dogerel." [] "The Story of Thebes," by Lydgate (below p. ); "The Tale of Beryn," with a prologue, wh... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922646 | the pilgrims in Canterbury and their visit to the cathedral (ed. Furnivall and Stone, Chaucer Society, -, 8vo); Henryson adds a canto to "Troilus" (below p. ). Other poems are so much in the style of Chaucer that they were long attributed to him: "The Court of Love"; "The Flower and the Leaf"; "The Isle of Ladies, or C... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922647 | &c. They are found in the Morris edition of Chaucer's works. All these poems are of the fifteenth century. [] Born about , at Lydgate, near Newmarket; sojourned in Paris in , died in , or soon after. Concerning the chronological order of his works, and his versification, see "Lydgate's Temple of Glas," ed. J. Schick, E... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922648 | , Introduction. His "Troy Book" is of -; his "Story of Thebes," of -; his translation of Deguileville, of -; his "Fall of Princes" was written about . [] He gave an English version of the famous story called in French, "Le Lai de l'Oiselet" (ed. G. Paris, ): "The Chorle and the Byrde." [] Ex. his picturesque "London Li... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922649 | [] Same idea as in Villon; refrain: All stant in chaunge like a mydsomer rose, Halliwell, "Selections from Lydgate," , p. . [] "Lydgate's sopbersetzung," ed. Sauerstein; "Anglia," , p. ; eight fables. He excuses himself: Have me excused, I was born in Lydegate, Of Tullius gardyn I entrid nat the gate. (p. .) [] O ye ma... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922650 | shal yowre looke Upon this dyt made in wordis playne, Remembre sothely that I the refreyn tooke Of hym that was in makyng soverayne, My maister, Chaucier, chief poete of Bretayne. Halliwell, "Selections from ... Lydgate," , p. . Similar praise in the "Serpent of Division" (in prose). See L. Toulmin Smith, "Gorboduc," H... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922651 | Museum possesses a splendid copy of it (Royal D ii., with miniatures of the time of the Renaissance, see above, p. ). The E.E.T.S. is preparing, , an edition of it; there exist previous ones, the first of which is of , "Here begynneth ... the Storye of Thebes," London, 4to. [] "Lydgate's Temple of Glas," ed. J. Schick,... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922652 | 8vo, Early English Text Society. [] First edition: "Here begynnethe the boke calledde John Bochas, descrivinge the Falle of Princes." [], folio. [] Myn hand gan tremble, my penne I felte quake ... I stode chekmate for feare whan I gan see, In my way how little I had runne. "Fall of Princes," prologue to ., Schick, "Sto... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922653 | p. cv. [] Example, fight between Ulysses and Troilus: He smote Ulyxes throughout his viser ... But Ulyxes tho lyke a manly man, Of that stroke astoned not at all, But on his stede, stiffe as any wall, With his swerde so mightely gan race, Through the umber into Troylus face, That he him gave a mortal wounde, of which, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922654 | naturally, Troilus does not die. "The auncient historie ... of the Warres, betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans," London, , 4to, ., chap xxii. First edition, . The work had been composed for Henry V. and at his request. Thomas Heywood gave a modernised version of it: "The Life and Death of Hector," . [] Ed. Zupitza, E... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922655 | Society. [] A selection of his detached poems, mixed with many apocryphal ones, was edited by Halliwell: "A Selection from the minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate" (Percy Society), , 8vo. [] "Troy Book"; in Schick, "Lydgate's Temple of Glas," p. lvi. In his learned essay Mr. Schick pleads extenuating circumstances in favou... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922656 | is in itself quite touching; here it is: For he that was grounde of well sayinge, In all his lyfe hyndred no makyng, My maister Chaucer yt founde ful many spot Hym list not pynche nor grutche at every blot.... Sufferynge goodly of his gentilnesse, Full many thynge embraced with rudenesse, And if I shall shortly hym dis... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922657 | none to thys daye alive, To reken all bothe of yonge and olde, That worthy was his ynkehorne for to holde. "The Auncient Historie," London, , 4to, . chap, xxxviii. [] Thomas Hoccleve was born about - and entered the "Privy Seal" in -; he died about . His works are being published by the Early English Text Society: "Hoc... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922658 | Works," , 8vo; I., "The Minor Poems." His great poem, "De Regimine principum," has been edited by Th. Wright, Roxburghe Club, , 4to. Two or three of his tales in verse are imitated from the "Gesta Romanorum"; another, the "Letter of Cupid," from the "Epistre an Dieu d'Amours," of Christine de Pisan. "Hoccleve's metre i... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922659 | can count ten syllables by his fingers he is content." Furnivall, "Minor Poems," p. xli. [] It seems like nothing, he says, but just try and see: Many men, fadir, wennen that writynge No travaile is; thei hold it but a game ... But who-so list disport hym in that same, Let hym continue and he shall fynd it grame; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922660 | It is wel gretter labour than it seemeth. ("Minor Poems," p. xvii.) [] "La Male Rgle de Thomas Hoccleve," in the "Minor Poems," pp. ff. [] Al-thogh his lyfe be queynt, the rsemblaunce Of him hath me so fressh lyflynesse, That, to putte othir men in rmembraunce Of his persone, I have heere his lyknesse Do mak, to this e... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922661 | in sothfastnesse, That thei that have of him lest thought and mynde, By this peyntur may ageyn him fynde. ("Minor Poems," p. xxxiii.; on this portrait see above, p. .) [] "Poetical Remains of James I. of Scotland," ed. Ch. Rogers, Edinburgh, . The "King's Quhair" is found entire in Eyre Todd: "Abbotsford series of the ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922662 | vols, _Cf._ "Le roman d'un roi d'cosse," with details from an unprinted MS., Paris, . [] Though used by others before him, and especially by Chaucer; they rhyme _a b a b b c c_. Chaucer wrote in this metre "Troilus," "Parlement of Foules," &c. Here is an example, consisting in the commendation of the book to Chaucer an... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922663 | Unto [the] impnis of my maisteris dere, Gowere and Chaucere, that on the steppis satt Of rethorike quhill thai were lyvand here, Superlative as poetis laureate, In moralitee and eloquence ornate, I recommend my buk in lynis sevin, And eke thair soulis un-to the blisse of hevin. [] "The Actis and Deidis of ... Schir Wil... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922664 | by Henry the Minstrel, commonly known as Blind Harry, ed. J. Moir, Edinburgh, -, Scottish Text Society. Blind Harry died towards the end of the fifteenth century. [] Henryson was born before , and wrote under James II. and James III. of Scotland; he was professor, perhaps schoolmaster, at Dunfermline. His works have be... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922665 | [] "The Works of Gavin Douglas," ed. J. Small, Edinburgh, , vols. 8vo. Born in -, died in . He finished his "Palice of Honour" in , an allegorical poem resembling the ancient models: May morning, Vision of Diana, Venus and their trains, descriptions of the Palace of Honour, &c. We shall find, at the Renaissance, Dougla... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922666 | Virgil; his neid was printed only in . [] Born about , studies at St. Andrews, becomes a mendicant friar and is ordained priest, sojourns in France, where the works of Villon had just been printed, then returns to the Court of James IV., where he is very popular. He died probably after . "The Poems of William Dunbar," ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922667 | Small and Mackay, Edinburgh, Scottish Text Society. [] See, for example, his "Lament for the Makaris quhen he wes seik," a kind of "Ballade des potes du temps jadis," a style which Lydgate and Villon had already furnished models of. In it he weeps: The noble Chaucer, of makaris flouir, The monk of Bery and Gower all th... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922668 | of the "Thrissil and the Rois" (to be compared with the opening of the "Canterbury Tales"): Quhen March wes with variand windis past, And Appryl had, with his silver schouris, Tane leif at Nature with ane orient blast, And lusty May, that muddir is of flouris, Had maid the birdis to begyn their houris Amang the tendir ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922669 | quhyt, Quhois armony to heir it was delyt.... [] Text in the Morris edition of Chaucer's poetical works, London, Aldine poets, vol. iv. [] Principal work to consult: F. J. Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads," Boston, . See above, p. . [] In "Bishop Percy's Folio MS.," ed. Hales and Furnivall, London, Ball... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922670 | _e.g._, in Skeat, "Specimens of English Literature," Oxford, 4th ed. , p. , written, under the form in which we now have it, about the end of the fifteenth century. [] The pillers of yvery garnished with golde, With perles sette and brouded many a folde, The flore was paved with stones precious, &c. Stephen Hawes, "Pas... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922671 | Society, , p. . [] "A History of Agriculture and Prices," vol. iv., Oxford, , p. . See also the important chapters on Industry and Commerce in Mrs. Green's "Town Life in the XVth Century," London, , vols. 8vo, vol. i. chaps. ii. and iii. [] This title, since conferred upon the Russells, had been given to George Neville... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922672 | king, who had intended to endow the new duke in a proper manner, had given up the idea; and on the other hand, "as it is openly knowen that the same George hath not, nor by enheritance mey have, eny lyffelode to support the seid name, estate and dignite, or eny name of estate; and oft time it is sen | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922673 | that when eny lord is called to high estate and have not liffelode conveniently to support the same dignite, it induces gret poverty, indigens, and causes oftymes grete extortion, embracere and mayntenaunce to be had.... Wherfore the kyng, by the advyse ... [&c.] exactith that fro hensfforth the same erection and makin... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922674 | guyffen to the seid George, or the seid John Nevele his fader, be from hens fors voyd and of no effecte." Ed. IV. year , "Rotuli Parliamentorum," vol. vi. p. . [] See "Stans puer ad mensam," by Lydgate, printed by Caxton: T' enboce thi jowes with brede it is not due ... Thy teth also ne pike not with | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922675 | the knyff ... The best morsell, have this in remembraunce, Hole to thiself alway do not applye. Hazlitt, "Remains," , vol. iii. p. . Many other treatises on etiquette cooking, &c. See chiefly: "The Babes Book ... The Book of Norture," &c., ed. Furnivall, , 8vo; "Two fifteenth century Cookery Books," ed. T. Austin, , 8v... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922676 | essence," about -, ed. Furnivall, (medical recipes); "Palladius on husbondrie ..." about , ed. Lodge, - (on orchards and gardens); "The Book of the Knight of la Tour Landry ... translated in the reign of Henry VI.," ed. T. Wright, , 8vo (the whole published by the Early English Text Society). [] "The Paston Letters," -... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922677 | vols. 8vo. [] Or in the worthy Margaret's spelling: "Yf I mythe have had my wylle, I xulde a seyne yow er dystyme; I wolde ye wern at hom, yf it wer your ese, and your sor myth ben as wyl lokyth to her as it tys there ye ben, now lever dan a goune thow it wer of scarlette." | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922678 | (Sept , , vol. i. p. ). [] Sept. , , vol. ii. p. . [] _E.g._, "The Itineraries of William Wey" (pilgrimages), London, Roxburghe Club, ; much practical information; specimens of conversations in Greek, &c.; "The Stacions of Rome," ed. Furnivall, E.E.T.S, (on Rome and Compostella). [] See among others: "Anglo-Saxon and O... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922679 | Wlcker, London, , vols. 8vo; "Promptorium Parvulorum, sive clericorum ... _circa_ A.D. ," ed. Albert Way, Camden Society, , 4to, by Geoffrey the Grammarian, a Dominican of Norfolk; "Catholicon Anglicum, an English Latin wordbook, dated ," ed. Herrtage, E.E.T.S., , 8vo. [] In the "Political Poems," ed. Th. Wright, Rolls... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922680 | des hrauts de France et d'Angleterre," (written about ), ed. P. Meyer, Socit des Anciens Textes, , 8vo; on the navy, p. . [] "De Dominio regali et politico." In it he treats of (chap. i.) "the difference between Dominium regale and Dominium politicum et regale," a difference that consists principally in this, that in t... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922681 | "may not rule hys people by other lawys than such as they assenten unto." Fortescue was born about , and died after . He wrote in Latin a treatise, "De natura Legis Natur," and another, "De laudibus Legum Angli."--"Works of Sir John Fortescue ... now first collected," by Thomas [Fortescue] Lord Clermont, London, , vols... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922682 | xiii., vol. i. pp. ff. [] In his principal work, the "Repressor of over much blaming of the Clergy," ed. Babington, Rolls, , vols. 8vo. Pecock was born about ; he was a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, bishop of St. Asaph, then bishop of Chichester. He wrote, besides the "Repressor," a quantity of works ("Donet"; "Book... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922683 | of Donet," &c., unpublished), also in English prose. The Church found that he went too far, and allotted too great a part to reason; his writings were condemned and burnt; he was relegated to the abbey of Thorney in , and died there a short time after. [] "Repressor," i, ch. xix. [] "The Boke of St. Albans, by Dame | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922684 | Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting and cote armour, printed at St. Albans, by the Schoolmaster printer in , reproduced in fac simile," by W. Blades, London, , 4to (partly in verse and partly in prose; adapted from the French).--"A Chronicle of England" (from the creation to ), by Capgrave, born i... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922685 | . (Of the same, a "Liber de illustribus Henricis," in Latin, ed. Hingeston, Rolls, , and other works; see above, p. .) "A Book of the noble Historyes of Kynge Arthur and of certen of his Knyghtes," printed by Caxton in ; reprinted with notes ("Le Morte Darthur," by Sir Thomas Malory) by O. Sommer and Andrew Lang, Londo... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922686 | vols. 8vo. Malory and Caxton will be mentioned again in connection with the Renaissance. [] The "Testament of Love," in English prose. It has been attributed to Chaucer. Mr. Skeat has shown, by deciphering an anagram, that the author's name was Kitsun: "Margaret of Virtw have mercy on Kitsun" (_Academy_, March , ). [] ... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922687 | "the strict laws of time," and he has introduced no chorus; but it is not his fault. "Nor is it needful, or almost possible in these our times, and to such auditors as commonly things are presented, to observe the old state and splendor of dramatic poems, with preservation of any popular delight."--_To the readers._ []... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922688 | Bessarion," Paris, , 8vo, p. . INDEX. Abbeys, ff. _A. B. C._, . Abel, . Ablard, , . Abernun, P. d', . Abraham and Isaac, a play, . Abstractions, personified, , , . Achilles, , . _Acta Sanctorum_, . Actors, ff., ff. Adam, in Anglo-Saxon Bible, , and Eve, ; , a mystery, ff., ff. Adam, "scriveyn," . Addison, . | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922689 | Adgar, . Adrian IV., pope, , . lfric, , ff., , . Aelred of Rievaulx, , , , ff. neas the Trojan, , , , _see_ "Enas." sop, . thelberht, . thelred, . thelstan, , , . thelwold, . thelwulf, . Aetius, . Agricola, . Ailill, . Amer, . Aix, Albert d', . Alaric, . Albin, St., . Alchemist, in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922690 | Chaucer, , . Alcuin, ff., , . Aldhelm, , his riddles, . "Alemanni," . Alexander, romances on, ff.; . Alexander, bishop of Lincoln, . Alfred the Great, , , , , life and works, ff.; . Alinor of Aquitaine, . Alinor of Provence, , . Allegories, in _Roman de la Rose_, ff. Allen, Grant, on Germanic names, , on Norman | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922691 | names, . Alliteration, in Anglo-Saxon and in French, ff., in Aldhelm, , after the Conquest, ff.; , Chaucer's opinion about, ; , , in Langland, . Ambrose, companion of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, . America, discovered, . _Amis and Amile_, , . Ammianus Marcellinus, , . _Anatomy of Abuses_, . Anchoresses, , ff. _Ancren Riwle_,... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922692 | , ff. _Anelida_ see _Complaint_. Angevin England, literature of, Bk. ii. c. ii., iii., iv., ff.; survives in Gower, . Angle, Sir Guichard d', . Angles, , , , . "Angli," . Anglo-Saxons, their name, , vocabulary, , national poetry, Bk. i. c. iii., ff., Mss. and art of, , , , despondency of, ff., ff., their idea of death, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922693 | ff., their Christian literature, Bk. i. c. iv., ff., their internal divisions, , how transformed by Norman conquest, ff., , mind and genius of, , , , , Chaucer and the, ff. _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, , , , ff., on Hastings, , , on William, ff. Anne of Bohemia, , ff. Annebaut, R. d', . Anselm, St., , , . Antenor, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922694 | the Trojan, . _Antigone_ of Sophocles, . _Antiocheis_, . Antoninus Pius, , . Apelles, , . Apollinia, life of St., and drama on, ff. _Apollonius of Tyre_, in A.S., . _Appius and Virginia_, , . Aquinas, St. Thomas, . _Arabian Nights_, . Arbois de Jubainville, d', on Celts, ff. Arc, Joan of, , , . Architecture, of the Ang... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922695 | Norman, , perpendicular, , with "pinnacles," ; , of Westminster Hall, . Argentille, . Argyropoulos, . Ariosto, , . Aristotle, , , , , . "Armachanus," _see_ Fitzralph. Armenia, . Armorica, . "Army," the Danish, . Arnold, T., on _Beowulf_, , on Wyclif, . Art: Henry III.'s style, , , gold and silver tablets, cups, &c., ff... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922696 | miniatures, , tapestries, , embroidery, , statue from the nude, , painted walls and stained glass, , in Italy, ff., antique, ff., portrait of Chaucer, , , favoured by Plantagenets, ff., tomb of Gower, , Malvern Church, , picture by Fouquet, ff., fresco at Stratford-on-Avon, ; _see_ Architecture, Miniatures. Arthur, Kin... | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922697 | ff.; , in Layamon, ff.; , , ff. Ass, feast of the, . Asser, , . _Astre_, . _Astrolabe_, , , . Attila, , , . Aucassin, , , . Augier, of St. Frideswide's, . Augustine, comes to England, ff. Augustus, the emperor, , , . Aungerville, Sir R., . Ausonius, . Avebury, circles at, . Avesbury, Robert of, , | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922698 | . Avignon, , , . Avit, St., bishop of Vienna, . _Ayenbite of Inwyt_, . Aymon, . Bacchanals, ff. Bacchus, theatre of, . Bacon, Roger, , , . "Badin," on the stage, . Bailey, Harry, of the "Tabard," ff., ff., . _Balade de bon Conseyl_, . Balduf, . Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury, , , . John Ball, priest, , , | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012922699 | , , . Ballads, by Chaucer, , on Griselda, ; ff., by Gower, ff.; , _see_ "Chansons," and Songs. Ballets, . Barbour, J., ff., . Bards, Celtic, . Barking, Clemence of, . Barry, Gerald de, on Welshmen, ; , , , , , . Barry, Richard de, . Barry, William de, . Bartholomew, St., life of, in A.S., . Bartholomew | 60 | gutenberg |
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