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Page 34 - Have ye nat seyn som tyme a pale face Among a prees, of hym that hath be lad Toward his deeth, wher as hym gat no grace, And swich a colour in his face hath had, Men myghte knowe his face, that was bistad, Amonges alle the faces in that route?
Page 39 - E già venia su per le torbid' onde Un fracasso d' un suon pien di spavento, Per cui tremavano ambedue le sponde; Non altrimenti fatto che d...
Page 205 - His page is the lucid mirror of his mind and life — " Quo fit, ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis." He writes passionately, because he feels keenly ; forcibly, because he conceives vividly ; he sees too clearly to be vague ; he is too serious to be otiose ; he can...
Page 144 - The hystory of the moost noble and valyaunt knyght Arthur of lytell brytayne, translated out of frensshe in to englushe by the noble Johan Bourghcher knyght lorde Barriers was printed by Robert Redborne, without date.
Page 132 - GUIDO, I wish that Lapo, thou, and I, Could be by spells conveyed, as it were now, Upon a barque, with all the winds that blow Across all seas at our good will to hie. So no mischance nor temper of the sky Should mar our course with spite or cruel slip, But we, observing old companionship, To be companions still should long thereby. And Lady Joan, and Lady Beatrice...
Page 79 - It may well be doubted ; and yet one is always the better for a walk in the morning air, — a medicine which may be taken over and over again without any sense of sameness, or any failure of its invigorating quality. There is a pervading wholesomeness in...
Page 119 - Ther is, which jifth gret appetit To slepe. And thus full of delit Slep hath his hous ; and of his couche Withinne his chambre if I schal louche, 90 Of hebenus that slepi tree The bordes al aboute be, And for he scholde slepe softe, Upon a fethrebed alofte He lith with many a pilwe of doun.
Page 45 - Quale allodetta che in aere si spazia Prima cantando, e poi tace, contenta Dell...
Page 129 - Sit ich dich, herze, niht wol mac erwenden, dun wellest mich vil trüreclichen län, so bite ich got daz er dich ruoche senden an eine stat da man dich wol enpfä. owe wie sol ez armen dir ergän!