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Pagina vii
... from Chaucer , ⋅ Introductory Remarks , Barbour , CHAPTER III . Early Scotch Poets . Wyntoun , James I. of Scotland , Blind Harry , 35 35 3384349 41 45 46 47 47 48 49 Henryson , Dunbar , Gawin Douglas , Lindsay , CHAPTER vii.
... from Chaucer , ⋅ Introductory Remarks , Barbour , CHAPTER III . Early Scotch Poets . Wyntoun , James I. of Scotland , Blind Harry , 35 35 3384349 41 45 46 47 47 48 49 Henryson , Dunbar , Gawin Douglas , Lindsay , CHAPTER vii.
Pagina 36
... Scotland ; to two cardinals , more than thirty dukes , and .. England ; to several dukes of Scotland ; and to many pri the continent . Furthermore , his great - great grandson , John , Earl of Lincoln , a lineal descendant in the fifth ...
... Scotland ; to two cardinals , more than thirty dukes , and .. England ; to several dukes of Scotland ; and to many pri the continent . Furthermore , his great - great grandson , John , Earl of Lincoln , a lineal descendant in the fifth ...
Pagina 47
... Scotland , BLIND HARRY , HENRYSON , DUNBAR , Gawin DougLAS , and LINDSAY . Barbour . John Barbour , 1320 ( ? ) - 1396 , Archdeacon of Aberdeen , and a contemporary of Chaucer's , was a poet of considerable note . NOTE.- Barbour seems ...
... Scotland , BLIND HARRY , HENRYSON , DUNBAR , Gawin DougLAS , and LINDSAY . Barbour . John Barbour , 1320 ( ? ) - 1396 , Archdeacon of Aberdeen , and a contemporary of Chaucer's , was a poet of considerable note . NOTE.- Barbour seems ...
Pagina 48
... Scotland . Wyntoun . Andrew Wyntoun , 1350 ( ? ) - 1430 ( ? ) , Prior of St. Serf's , Lochleven , wrote a Chronicle of Scotland . Character of the Chronicle.- Wyntoun's Chronicle , more ambitious than those founded upon the Brutus of ...
... Scotland . Wyntoun . Andrew Wyntoun , 1350 ( ? ) - 1430 ( ? ) , Prior of St. Serf's , Lochleven , wrote a Chronicle of Scotland . Character of the Chronicle.- Wyntoun's Chronicle , more ambitious than those founded upon the Brutus of ...
Pagina 49
... Scotland in the fifteenth century . Though not lacking in strength or courage , he was unequal to the task of curbing those fierce Scottish nobles , by a party of whom he was finally assassinated in 1437 , at the age of forty - two ...
... Scotland in the fifteenth century . Though not lacking in strength or courage , he was unequal to the task of curbing those fierce Scottish nobles , by a party of whom he was finally assassinated in 1437 , at the age of forty - two ...
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Pagina 234 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.
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Pagina 130 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters' pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Pagina 130 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
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Pagina 98 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
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