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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... companions had each a cap , by means of which they were rendered invisible . This is the German tarn - kappe . He often asked for food and drink , which , when placed on a certain chest , immediately disappeared . The writer , from whom ...
... companions had each a cap , by means of which they were rendered invisible . This is the German tarn - kappe . He often asked for food and drink , which , when placed on a certain chest , immediately disappeared . The writer , from whom ...
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... companions in a tavern , and they proposed to sup on a portion of the stolen bacon . The thief hastened to the dunghill , found the sack , and bore it in triumph to the tavern ; * but when the maid proceeded to empty it of its contents ...
... companions in a tavern , and they proposed to sup on a portion of the stolen bacon . The thief hastened to the dunghill , found the sack , and bore it in triumph to the tavern ; * but when the maid proceeded to empty it of its contents ...
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... companions arrive , and are horror - struck at the spectacle offered to their eyes ; but Unibos takes the matter coolly , and tells them that if they will forgive him the trick he has played upon them , he will undertake to restore his ...
... companions arrive , and are horror - struck at the spectacle offered to their eyes ; but Unibos takes the matter coolly , and tells them that if they will forgive him the trick he has played upon them , he will undertake to restore his ...
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... companion at the door . The heads of the Norman lord and fourteen of his knights were quickly raised over the door - way in place of that of the youth they had murdered . The stranger was Hereward the Saxon , accompanied by his old and ...
... companion at the door . The heads of the Norman lord and fourteen of his knights were quickly raised over the door - way in place of that of the youth they had murdered . The stranger was Hereward the Saxon , accompanied by his old and ...
Page 95
... companions by his strength and boldness ; and , as he grew up , his adventurous disposition gave rise to continual feuds and tumults , which , with various acts of insubordination to- wards his parents , drew upon him the enmity of his ...
... companions by his strength and boldness ; and , as he grew up , his adventurous disposition gave rise to continual feuds and tumults , which , with various acts of insubordination to- wards his parents , drew upon him the enmity of his ...
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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.