Gesta Romanorum: Or, Entertaining Moral Stories ... Translated from the Latin, with Preliminary Observations and Copious Notes, Volumen1Wynnard Hooper C. and J. Rivington, 1824 - 933 páginas |
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... be narratives of what actually occurred , were again transcribed , with manifold amplifica- 1 See Mosheim's Eccles . Hist . Cent . I. and III . tions by those into whose hands the manu- scripts might xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... be narratives of what actually occurred , were again transcribed , with manifold amplifica- 1 See Mosheim's Eccles . Hist . Cent . I. and III . tions by those into whose hands the manu- scripts might xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
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... hands the manu- scripts might happen to fall . Metrical ver- sions were then given ; and their popularity soon induced the narrators to step out of their immediate walk of martyrdom , to raise the standard of chivalry in the persons of ...
... hands the manu- scripts might happen to fall . Metrical ver- sions were then given ; and their popularity soon induced the narrators to step out of their immediate walk of martyrdom , to raise the standard of chivalry in the persons of ...
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... hand , an apposite story , would arouse attention , and stimulate the blind and unenquiring devotion , which is so remarkably characteristic of the middle ages . The work under consideration is compiled from old Latin chronicles of ...
... hand , an apposite story , would arouse attention , and stimulate the blind and unenquiring devotion , which is so remarkably characteristic of the middle ages . The work under consideration is compiled from old Latin chronicles of ...
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... hand , contends that he is a German , because " in the Moralization to chapter 144 , " [ Tale LXIV . of the second volume of the translated Gesta , ] " there is , in most of the early editions , a German proverb ; and in chapter 142 ...
... hand , contends that he is a German , because " in the Moralization to chapter 144 , " [ Tale LXIV . of the second volume of the translated Gesta , ] " there is , in most of the early editions , a German proverb ; and in chapter 142 ...
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... hands of the lively and entertaining French minstrels , who have treated it in various ways , as may be seen in Le Grand ' Fableaux et Contes , tom . iv . , where it is related five times . The several imitations of it from The seven ...
... hands of the lively and entertaining French minstrels , who have treated it in various ways , as may be seen in Le Grand ' Fableaux et Contes , tom . iv . , where it is related five times . The several imitations of it from The seven ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abibas Alexis Amadis of Gaul anon answered APPLICATION beautiful beloved bird blood book of Tobit brother Cæsar called castle Christ Christian church command daugh daughter dear death devil Douce emperor empire empress espoused Eufemyen exclaimed eyes fable fair lady faith father fell flesh Fulgentius gave gentius GESTA ROMANORUM golden Guido hand hath heard heart heaven Holy Land honour husband Jovinian king kingdom knight lady lived lord marry master mercy messengers noble palace peace Pompey poor possessed pray Prince quoth received reign replied returned rich Roman romantic fiction Rome SAINT sayd seneschal servant Seven Wise Masters shew ship soldier soul steward story TALE tell thee ther thing thou art thou hast thou shalt tion took tree truth unto Valerius Maximus Vincent of Beauvais Virgin Warton wherefore wife wise woman wyfe young
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Página 377 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Página 381 - Twas there a vice, and seem'da madness here : Detesting that, and pitying this, he goes, Lost and confounded with the various shows. Now night's dim shades again involve the sky, Again the wanderers want a place to lie, Again they search, and find a lodging nigh : The soil...
Página 375 - Here we discover those features of chivalry, so admirably ridiculed by Cervantes. But, in times of oppression, when every one followed " the simple plan, That he may take who has the power, And he may keep who can...
Página 356 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Página 383 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air ; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light.
Página 382 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Página 147 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Página 385 - Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half- weaned his heart from God ; (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measur'd back his steps to earth again. To what excesses had his dotage run ? But God, to save the father, took the son. To all, but thee, in fits he seem'd to go, (And 'twas my ministry to deal the blow,) The poor fond...
Página 381 - In one so rich, a life so poor and rude ; And why should such...
Página 379 - As one who spies a serpent in his way, Glistening and basking in the summer ray, Disorder'd stops to shun the danger near, Then walks with...