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Page 180
... Layamon made an English ver- sion of Wace's Brut - that French metrical chronicle which the Anglo - Norman had drawn from the Latin history of Geoffry of Monmouth . Here we detect an entire changeableness of style , or rather a ...
... Layamon made an English ver- sion of Wace's Brut - that French metrical chronicle which the Anglo - Norman had drawn from the Latin history of Geoffry of Monmouth . Here we detect an entire changeableness of style , or rather a ...
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... Layamon's Version of Wace , we have a very original attempt of a writer , in those days of capricious pronunciation ... Layamon never will be printed ; " but we live in an age of publication , and Layamon is said to be actually in the ...
... Layamon's Version of Wace , we have a very original attempt of a writer , in those days of capricious pronunciation ... Layamon never will be printed ; " but we live in an age of publication , and Layamon is said to be actually in the ...
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... Layamon , in the same part of England , the monk ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER wrote his Chronicle , about 1280. This honest monk painfully . indited for his brother - Saxons the whole history of England , in the shape of Alexandrine verse in ...
... Layamon , in the same part of England , the monk ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER wrote his Chronicle , about 1280. This honest monk painfully . indited for his brother - Saxons the whole history of England , in the shape of Alexandrine verse in ...
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... Layamon and that which was written at the beginning of the fourteenth century ( about the time of Robert of Gloucester ) , as there is between the English language of the reign of Edward the Second and the tongue of the present day ...
... Layamon and that which was written at the beginning of the fourteenth century ( about the time of Robert of Gloucester ) , as there is between the English language of the reign of Edward the Second and the tongue of the present day ...
Page 189
... is a volume written by a monk of St. Austin's at Canterbury in the Kentish dialect , about a century and a half after Layamon , and half a century after Robert of Gloucester , in 1340. This honest ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 189.
... is a volume written by a monk of St. Austin's at Canterbury in the Kentish dialect , about a century and a half after Layamon , and half a century after Robert of Gloucester , in 1340. This honest ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 189.
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Page 66 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 67 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That...
Page 1 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Page 69 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 307 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.
Page 72 - ... the Hebrew (and I think the Syriac), the Greek, the Latin, the Italian, Spanish, and French. All which sorts of books to be confined to read, without understanding one word, must needs be a trial of patience almost beyond endurance.
Page 133 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 267 - Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible: — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or Thomas of Ercildoune.
Page 78 - Misgave him; he the faltering measure felt; And forth to meet her went, the way she took That morn when first they parted: by the tree Of knowledge he must pass; there he her met, Scarce from the tree returning; in her hand A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled, New gather'd and ambrosial smell diffused.
Page 190 - The emancipation of the national language was subsequently confirmed by another monarch. A curious anecdote in our literary history has recently been disclosed of Henry V. To encourage the use of the vernacular tongue, this monarch, in a letter missive to one of the city companies, declared that '' the English tongue hath in modern days begun to be honourably enlarged and adorned, and for the better understanding of thepeople the common idiom should be exercised in writing:" this was at once setting...