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... moral rhapsodies or scriptural histories instead of their former wild and warlike fictions , and their allusions to the Scaldic fables and heroes became few and occa- sional . Their bards degenerated in influence and cha- racter , and ...
... moral rhapsodies or scriptural histories instead of their former wild and warlike fictions , and their allusions to the Scaldic fables and heroes became few and occa- sional . Their bards degenerated in influence and cha- racter , and ...
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... moral vertue was his speche , And gladly wolde he lerne , and gladly teche . the marchante , the yonge squire , the frankeleine , the doctoure , the pardonere , the shipmanne , the prioress and her attendant nonnes , our author , the ...
... moral vertue was his speche , And gladly wolde he lerne , and gladly teche . the marchante , the yonge squire , the frankeleine , the doctoure , the pardonere , the shipmanne , the prioress and her attendant nonnes , our author , the ...
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... moral , ' the gentle ' GOWER , who in early life composed largely in French and Latin , and in his later years wrote an English poem in eight books entitled Confessio Amantis , which is a dialogue between a lover and his confessor , who ...
... moral , ' the gentle ' GOWER , who in early life composed largely in French and Latin , and in his later years wrote an English poem in eight books entitled Confessio Amantis , which is a dialogue between a lover and his confessor , who ...
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... Moral Plays usurped their place . They chiefly consisted of moral reasoning , and their characters were allegorical , such as * Myn husbond was at London all that Lent , * * Therfore made I my visitations To vigilies and to processions ...
... Moral Plays usurped their place . They chiefly consisted of moral reasoning , and their characters were allegorical , such as * Myn husbond was at London all that Lent , * * Therfore made I my visitations To vigilies and to processions ...
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... Morality , who usually personified some bad quality , as pride , lust , or any other evil propensity . + Comedy , it is true , had not been wholly unknown - we meet with some instances of it in the reign of Henry the Eighth and his ...
... Morality , who usually personified some bad quality , as pride , lust , or any other evil propensity . + Comedy , it is true , had not been wholly unknown - we meet with some instances of it in the reign of Henry the Eighth and his ...
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