On Friar Rush and the frolicsome elves. Observations on Dunlop's History of fiction. On the history and transmission of popular stories. On the poetry of history. Adventures of Hereward the Saxon. The story of Eustace the monk. The history of Fulke Fitz Warine. On the popular cycle of the Robin Hood ballads. The conquest of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans. On old English political songs. On the Scottish poet DunbarJ.R. Smith, 1846 - English literature |
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... Maurice Regan , inter- preter to Dermod mac Murrough , the king of Leinster . Bound up in the same volume with the manuscript of which we speak , is a prose abstract of this poem by Sir George Carew , who was lord president of Munster ...
... Maurice Regan , inter- preter to Dermod mac Murrough , the king of Leinster . Bound up in the same volume with the manuscript of which we speak , is a prose abstract of this poem by Sir George Carew , who was lord president of Munster ...
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... Maurice Regan was not the bard's sole authority , and it is probable that from him the recital was obtained in his old age ; for , in confirma- tion of what he says , he commonly appeals to the authority of the old people who witnessed ...
... Maurice Regan was not the bard's sole authority , and it is probable that from him the recital was obtained in his old age ; for , in confirma- tion of what he says , he commonly appeals to the authority of the old people who witnessed ...
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... Maurice Regan himself . For the sake of showing how ill Sir George read and interpreted his text , we will give the first eleven lines as he has quoted and translated them from the manuscript , and again as they actually stand in the ...
... Maurice Regan himself . For the sake of showing how ill Sir George read and interpreted his text , we will give the first eleven lines as he has quoted and translated them from the manuscript , and again as they actually stand in the ...
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... Maurice Regan was he , Mouth to mouth he spoke to him Who endited this history , And of himself showed me this He showed me the history of history . This Maurice was interpreter To the king , king Murcher . These things this batchellor ...
... Maurice Regan was he , Mouth to mouth he spoke to him Who endited this history , And of himself showed me this He showed me the history of history . This Maurice was interpreter To the king , king Murcher . These things this batchellor ...
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... Maurice Regan - one closely related to the heroes ( for heroes we may truly call them ) who performed the enterprise ; the other , an immediate agent of the native chieftain in whose aid it was performed . For our own part , we feel an ...
... Maurice Regan - one closely related to the heroes ( for heroes we may truly call them ) who performed the enterprise ; the other , an immediate agent of the native chieftain in whose aid it was performed . For our own part , we feel an ...
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Page 91 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 286 - Like a young courtier of the king's, And the king's young courtier. Like a flourishing young gallant, newly come to his land, Who keeps a brace of painted madams at his command, And takes up a thousand pound upon his father's land, And gets drunk in a tavern, till he can neither go nor stand ; Like a young courtier, &c.
Page 187 - IN somer, when the shawes be sheyne, And leves be large and long, Hit is full mery in feyre foreste To here the foulys song: To se the dere draw to the dale, And leve the hilles hee, And shadow hem in the lev s grene, Vnder the grene-wode tre.
Page 286 - And an old frize coat, to cover his worship's trunk hose, And a cup of old sherry, to comfort his copper nose; Like an old courtier, &c.
Page 286 - An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate.
Page 219 - Ireland, written apparently at the end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century, and...
Page 269 - The Kyng of Alemaigne wende do ful wel, He saisede the mulne for a castel, With hare sharpe swerdes he grounde the stel, He wende that the sayles were mangonel To helpe Wyndesore, Richard, thah thou be ever, &c. The Kyng of Alemaigne gederede ys host, Makede him a castel of a mulne post, Wende with is prude, ant is muchele bost, Brohte from Alemayne mony sori gost To store Wyndesore.
Page 38 - Ten pounds, quoth he, I will give thee, sweet Neece, with all my heart, So thou wilt grant to me thy love, to ease my troubled heart. Then let me a writing have, quoth he, from your owne hand with speed, That I may marry my sweet-heart when I have done this deed.
Page 95 - And thou touche his head or gowne, In syght that men may se, By all the sayntes that be in heaven, I shall hange you all thre.