Le Morte Darthur: Studies on the sources

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David Nutt, in the Strand, 1891

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الصفحة 7 - A compilation from earlier historical works made, in the form in which we have it, at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century and known by the name of WALTER OF COVENTRY (W.
الصفحة xxi - Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
الصفحة xvi - I require thee and beseech thee heartily, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, that thou never see me more in the visage; and I command thee, on God's behalf, that thou forsake my company, and to thy kingdom...
الصفحة xxii - Not for itself, but thro' thy living love For one to whom I made it o'er his grave Sacred, accept this old imperfect tale, New-old, and shadowing Sense at war with Soul Rather than that gray king whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak, And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still...
الصفحة 287 - Here foloweth the viij book the which is the first book of sir Tristram de Lyones / & who was his fader & his moder / & hou he borne and fosteryd / And how he was made knyghte / " The first part of the MS. would therefore contain part i. of the Vulgate " Tristan," corresponding to Malory's books viii.
الصفحة 292 - ... supposition, we must still say that he left out many of the most touching and admirable portions of the French romances, and that he has incorporated others of inferior quality. The most marked and distressing instance is his preference of the trivial and distasteful version of the Merlin and Niviene episode as found in the 'Suite de Merlin...
الصفحة xvi - Almesbury, and there she let make herself a nun, and wore white clothes and black, and great penance she took, as ever did sinful lady in this land, and never creature could make her merry, but lived in fasting, prayers, and alms-deeds, that all manner of people marvelled how virtuously she was changed.
الصفحة 149 - LAYAMON'S BRUT, or Chronicle of Britain : a Poetical semi-Saxon paraphrase of the Brut of Wace.
الصفحة 159 - ... al abrode on the see. And therwith the kynge awoke anone, and was sore abasshed of this dreme. And sente anone for a wyse philosopher, commaundynge to telle hym the sygnyfycacion of his dreme. Syre sayd the philosopher, the dragon that thow dremedest of, betokeneth thyn owne persone that sayllest here, & the colours of his wynges ben thy Royames that thow haste wonne, And his taylle whiche is al to tatterd vOL.
الصفحة 11 - Lancelot,' had another source from which he drew the first part of the episode of Malegeaunt and Gueneuer; or else that a previous version existed combining the two accounts. The last four chapters of this book, describing the handling of syr Vrre's wounds, cannot be traced. I believe Malory adapted them from some now lost French lay. The enumeration of all the knights who, at Arthur's request, handle Vrre's wounds is undoubtedly Malory's own; he seems, as I can prove from other instances, to have...

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