Studies in Philology, Volume 15University of North Carolina Press, 1918 - Electronic journals |
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... romance , we read in the two extant Mss . that are fairly complete : Li latins de coi cist estoires fust traite an romanz fu pris an l'ille d'Ava- 1 In a note Foerster adds ( p . 183 * ) : “ Man möchte eine Erklärung heraus- tüfteln ...
... romance , we read in the two extant Mss . that are fairly complete : Li latins de coi cist estoires fust traite an romanz fu pris an l'ille d'Ava- 1 In a note Foerster adds ( p . 183 * ) : “ Man möchte eine Erklärung heraus- tüfteln ...
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... romance ; and where there are so many striking agreements this single departure from the truth is of no great importance . St. Mary's was the Glaston- bury church , par excellence , our author mentions no other by name , it is thus not ...
... romance ; and where there are so many striking agreements this single departure from the truth is of no great importance . St. Mary's was the Glaston- bury church , par excellence , our author mentions no other by name , it is thus not ...
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... romance reflects , as we have seen . Finally , the vaus d'Avaron of Robert de Borron and the grant valée in the Perles- vaus ' description of Avalon obviously represent the same locality . The University of Chicago . text . Incidentally ...
... romance reflects , as we have seen . Finally , the vaus d'Avaron of Robert de Borron and the grant valée in the Perles- vaus ' description of Avalon obviously represent the same locality . The University of Chicago . text . Incidentally ...
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... romance . Yet since none of the great knights of the Round Table figures in it , and none of the great stories is to be found , as they are found , for example , in Tennyson's Idylls , scholars apparently content themselves with ...
... romance . Yet since none of the great knights of the Round Table figures in it , and none of the great stories is to be found , as they are found , for example , in Tennyson's Idylls , scholars apparently content themselves with ...
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... romance and folklore conception of a land of enchantment , difficult of access , with a quite arbitrary and literal conception of England as the scene in which the action . of his poem takes place . * Letter to Raleigh . The Queen was ...
... romance and folklore conception of a land of enchantment , difficult of access , with a quite arbitrary and literal conception of England as the scene in which the action . of his poem takes place . * Letter to Raleigh . The Queen was ...
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Page 157 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 180 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 233 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 155 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Page 183 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 138 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 142 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagiou, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 170 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 159 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much lo be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 165 - Nor shall we then need the monsieurs of Paris to take our hopeful youth into their slight and prodigal custodies, and send them over, back again, transformed into mimics, apes, and kickshaws.