Bonner Beiträge zur Anglistik, Volume 6P. Hanstein., 1900 |
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Alexander Alexander Romance authorship Bannatyne beyn Blair blind Blind Harry Blynd Harry Bonner Beiträge Bower Brut chapter Chaucer Chaucerian Chronicles colophon Cronykil dede Douglas Dunbar Edinburgh edition editor English evidence fact fifteenth century French Froissart Froissart's Chronicles Gest Historiale gret herald Howlat Huchown James Jean le Bel John Barbour John the Ross knight kyng Latin Layamon lines literary Lord Lord of Douglas maid manuscript Martinus mekill Monk's Tale mony Morte Arthure mycht narrative nocht Orosius passage poem Professor Skeat quha Quhar Quhen Quhill Ramsay's Relationes remarkable rendering rime romance Ross Herald rycht sall says Schir Scotichronicon Scotland Scots Scottish poet shew Sir John Ramsay Sir William Wallace slycht sone Sowdone story suld syne tane thai thaim thair thame thar thare Thomas Gray thow translation Troy Book Tydeus tyme Vide VIII Wallace and Bruce weill Wyntoun
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Page 6 - Scots, and the consequent attempt to conquer them at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries, that provoked an antagonism lasting for several hundred years.
Page 43 - My cours, that hath so wyde for to turne, Hath moore power than woot any man. Myn is the drenchyng in the see so wan, Myn is the prison in the derke cote, Myn is the stranglyng and hangyng by the throte, The murmure, and the cherles rebellyng, The groynynge, and the pryvee empoysonyng.
Page 39 - Graym, for quham he murned mast. Quhen thai him fand, and gud Wallace him saw, He lychtyt doun, and hynt him fra thaim aw 565 In armyss vp; behaldand his paill face, He kyssyt him, and cryt full oft;
Page 12 - The events themselves are immaterial, otherwise than as the clothing and manifestation of the spirit that is working within. In this mode, the unity resulting from succession is destroyed, but is supplied by a unity of a higher order, which connects the events by reference to the workers, gives a reason for them in the ..motives, and presents men in their causative character.
Page 139 - swa is it gane With me, that thar is nocht bot ane, That is the ded, withouten dreid, That ilk man mon thole on neid. And I thank God that haß me sent Spaß in this liff me till repent.
Page 44 - Sampsoun, shakynge the piler; And myne be the maladyes colde, The derke tresons, and the castes olde; My lookyng is the fader of pestilence.
Page 4 - Wallace" in a different light. I am persuaded that it is the work of an ignorant man, who was yet in possession of valuable and authentic materials. On what other supposition can we account for the fact, that, whilst in one page we meet with errors which show a deplorable perversion of history, in the next we find circumstances unknown to other Scottish historians, yet corroborated by authentic documents, by contemporary English annalists, by national muniments and records, only published in modern...
Page 113 - That wes joyful! off this tithing : For he wend, thai had all bene slayne, Tharfor he turnyt in hy agayne, And wan Mantrybill and passit Flagot ; And syne Lawyne and all his flot Dispitusly discumfyt he : And deliueryt his men all fre, And wan the naylis, and the...
Page 41 - Bot fayr and weill kepyt was his face. Off ryches he kepyt no propyr thing ; Gaiff as he wan, lik Alexander the King. In tym off pes, mek as a maid was he ; Quhar wer approchyt the rycht Ector was he.
Page 54 - The lives and characters of the most eminent Writers of the Scots Nation ; with an abstract and catalogue of their Works ; their various editions ; and the judgment of the learned concerning them.