The "Gest Hystoriale" of the Destruction of Troy: An Alliterative Romance Tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria Troiana.", المجلد 1 |
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الصفحة 409
The first ten lines of this extract are Lydgate's , modified in spelling by the Scottish copyist , and it is very manifest that the last two were not copied from the corresponding lines of the Cambridge MS .
The first ten lines of this extract are Lydgate's , modified in spelling by the Scottish copyist , and it is very manifest that the last two were not copied from the corresponding lines of the Cambridge MS .
الصفحة 423
The writer of this , in the course of his investigations in connection with the present poem , has examined personally or by deputy several MSS . , or versions of Guido de Colonna , and of Lydgate's Troy Book , and has had many portions ...
The writer of this , in the course of his investigations in connection with the present poem , has examined personally or by deputy several MSS . , or versions of Guido de Colonna , and of Lydgate's Troy Book , and has had many portions ...
الصفحة 424
And yet upon comparing these extracts with the parallel passages in the printed version of Lydgate executed by Marsh ... I am of opinion is Lydgate's original word — the change to covered having taken place in the modernized version .
And yet upon comparing these extracts with the parallel passages in the printed version of Lydgate executed by Marsh ... I am of opinion is Lydgate's original word — the change to covered having taken place in the modernized version .
الصفحة 425
Lydgate is not a myth , however ; while most of the works ascribed to him , and especially his well - known Troy Book , are no myths either . Of the latter we know of five different MSS . , from all of i which we have various extracts ...
Lydgate is not a myth , however ; while most of the works ascribed to him , and especially his well - known Troy Book , are no myths either . Of the latter we know of five different MSS . , from all of i which we have various extracts ...
الصفحة 443
Before leaving this passage it may not be uninteresting or uninstructive to compare it with the parallel passage of Lydgate , which we shall give here entire as it is given in the Douce MS . Oxford , supplying from the Digby MS . two ...
Before leaving this passage it may not be uninteresting or uninstructive to compare it with the parallel passage of Lydgate , which we shall give here entire as it is given in the Douce MS . Oxford , supplying from the Digby MS . two ...
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alliteration appears Barbour beginning Bruce called cause close common Compare conclusion connection copy covered craft dash Dere Destruction Douglas dynt early Edinburgh English entry especially evidence examples expression fell fiercely follow forms frequently further gate Gawane Gest give given Gloss Glossary ground Guido hand hence hold Huchowne Jamieson's Dict Knight known language lede lines live Lydgate means Morte Arth Morte Arthure Observe occurs original particulars passage perhaps person phrase poem poet portions present pret probably pronounced proof referred regarding remarks rendered result Roman rush Scotland Scottish sense similar sometimes speak spelling story strike strong struck termination throughout translation Troy Book turn various verb Virgil W. W. Skeat Wallace words writers written Wyntown þat
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الصفحة 463 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no...
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الصفحة 421 - And men off gud dyscretyowne Suld excuse, and love Huchowne, That cunnand wes in literature. He made the gret Gest off Arthure, And the Awntyre off Gawane, The Pystyll als off Swete Swsaue.
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