Two lectures read before the Essay society of Exeter college, Oxford [by R.J. King.].private distribution, 1840 - 100 sider |
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... Launfal . ” The poem opens with a description of the banquets and high festivals which took place at the marriage of King Arthur and the Lady Guenever . No man was allowed to be present " but he were prelat , or baronette ; " and on the ...
... Launfal . ” The poem opens with a description of the banquets and high festivals which took place at the marriage of King Arthur and the Lady Guenever . No man was allowed to be present " but he were prelat , or baronette ; " and on the ...
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... Launfal how deeply and truly she loved him - for it seems that in those days neither fairies or more mortal dames were very retiring or bashful in such matters - she pre- sented him with a magic purse , " ymad of silk and of gold clere ...
... Launfal how deeply and truly she loved him - for it seems that in those days neither fairies or more mortal dames were very retiring or bashful in such matters - she pre- sented him with a magic purse , " ymad of silk and of gold clere ...
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... Launfal , began to repent having treated him with neglect during his previous poverty , and forthwith begged him to attend a stately banquet he was that day to give ; but Sir Launfal dismissed him with reproaches , and after arranging ...
... Launfal , began to repent having treated him with neglect during his previous poverty , and forthwith begged him to attend a stately banquet he was that day to give ; but Sir Launfal dismissed him with reproaches , and after arranging ...
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... Launfal should never pass out of Lombardy in life ; but their threats were altogether vain . With a few sweeping blows of his faulchion , Sir Launfal “ slew them all " as easily as he would dash off the dew from the grass : and meeting ...
... Launfal should never pass out of Lombardy in life ; but their threats were altogether vain . With a few sweeping blows of his faulchion , Sir Launfal “ slew them all " as easily as he would dash off the dew from the grass : and meeting ...
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... Launfal , who was leading the dance ; and not being at all a person of indolent habits in such matters , she took with her sixty of her maidens , and came down among the Knights : during the pauses of the dance , she found means to have ...
... Launfal , who was leading the dance ; and not being at all a person of indolent habits in such matters , she took with her sixty of her maidens , and came down among the Knights : during the pauses of the dance , she found means to have ...
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Side 80 - It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. "Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Side 71 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Side 87 - Then anon they heard cracking and crying of thunder, that them thought the place should all to-drive. In the midst of this blast entered a sunbeam more clearer by seven times than ever they saw day, and all they were alighted of the grace of the Holy Ghost.
Side 29 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Side 14 - To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse-winded, blowing far and keen :— Forthwith the hubbub multiplies ; the gale Labours with wilder shrieks, and rifer din Of hot pursuit ; the broken cry of deer Mangled by throttling dogs ; the shouts of men, And hoofs, thick beating on the hollow hill.
Side 80 - Their beds are made in the heavens high, Down at the foot of our good lord's knee, Weel set about wi' gillyflowers : , I wot sweet company for to see.
Side 41 - For not to have been dipt in Lethe lake Could save the sonne of Thetis from to die...