Baptist, seems to have been adopted from the general clamor and cry then abroad in the country. The greater bulk of the work, the date of which its editor is inclined to fix between 1382 and 1384, is rather a moral than an historical essay; but the first... Confessio Amantis of John Gower - Page xxviiiby John Gower - 1857Full view - About this book
| John Gower - Christian ethics - 1857 - 432 pages
...his mind, he wrote that fingular work in Latin diftichs, called Vox Clamantis, of which we pofTefs an excellent edition by the Rev. HO Coxe, printed...allegorical difguife; the poet having a dream on the i ith of June 1381, in which men aflume the fhape of animals. The fecond book contains a long fermon... | |
| John Gower - Christian ethics - 1857 - 428 pages
...St. John the Baptift, feems to have been adopted from the general clamour and cry then abroad in tjie country. The greater bulk of the work, the date of which its editor is inclined to fix between i382 and i384 is rather a moral than an hiftorical eflay ; but the firft book defcribes the infurrection... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 626 pages
...Coxe. It consists of seven Books in Latin elegiaes. " The greater bulk of the work," says Dr. Pauli, " the date of which its editor is inclined to fix between 1382 and 1384, is rather a moral than an historical essay; but the First Book describes the insurrection of Wat Tyler in an allegorical disguise;... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...Coxe. It consists of seven Books in Latin elegiacs. " The greater bulk of the work," says Dr. Pauli, " the date of which its editor is inclined to fix between 1382 and 1384, is rather a moral than an historical essay; but the First Book describes the insurrection of Wat Tyler in an allegorical disguise;... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...Coxe. It consists of seven Books in Latin elegiaes. " The greater bulk of the work," says Dr. Pauli, " the date of which its editor is inclined to fix between 1382 and 1384, is rather a moral than an historical essay; but the First Book describes the insurrection of Wat Tyler in an allegorical disguise;... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 542 pages
...name, with au allusion to St. John the Baptist, seems to have been adopted from the general clamor and cry then abroad in the country. The greater bulk...fix between 1382 and 1384, is rather a moral than an historical essay; but the first book describes the insurrection of Wat Tyler in an allegorical disguise;... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 562 pages
...name, with an allusion to St. John the liaptist, seems to have been adopted from the general clamor and cry then abroad in the country. The greater bulk...which its editor is inclined to fix between 1382 and Io84, is rather a moral than an historical essay; bnt the fint &noA* describes the insurrection of... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 550 pages
...seems to have been adopted from the general elamor and cry then abroad in the conntry. The grcater bulk of the work, the date of which its editor is inclined to fix between 1082 and 13S4, is rather a moral than an historical essay; but the jirst book deseribes the insurreetion... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1868 - 562 pages
...name, with an allusion to St. John the Baptist, seems to have been adopted from the general clamor and cry then abroad in the country. The greater bulk...its editor is inclined to fix between 1382 and 1384, ia rather a moral than an historical essay ; but the frut book describes the insurrection of Wat Tyler... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 552 pages
...name, with an allusion to St. John the Baptist, seems to have been adopted from the general clamor and cry then abroad in the country. The greater bulk...date of which its editor is inclined to fix between 138-J and 1084, is rather a moral than an historical essay; but the first book describes the insurrection... | |
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