| Charles Mills - Chivalry - 1825 - 838 pages
...or historical CHAP. rhymes. And in another place the same author — speaks of companies that were desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past. * The domestic amusements of the age are thus enumerated by Burton : " The ordinary recreations which... | |
| Charles Mills - Chivalry - 1825 - 404 pages
...or historical CHAP. rhymes. And in another place the same author — speaks of companies that were desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past. * The domestic amusements of the age are thus enumerated by Burton : " The ordinary recreations which... | |
| Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...English tongue, in short and long metre, and by breaches or divisions, (ie fits) to be more commodiously sung to the harp, in places of assembly, where the...adventures and valiances of noble knights in times past, as those of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Bevis of Southampton], and others like."... | |
| John Timbs - 1839 - 446 pages
...old romances or historical rhymes. And in another place the same author speaks of companies that were desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past. The domestic amusements of the age are thus enumerated by Burton : " The ordinary recreations which... | |
| Charles Mills - Chivalry - 1844 - 256 pages
...old romances or historical rhymes. And in another place the same author speaks of companies that were desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past.f The domestic amusements of the age are thus enumerated by Burton : " The ordinary * Nicholls's.... | |
| Edward Francis Rimbault - Ballads, English - 1851 - 304 pages
...English tongue, in short and long metre, and by breaches or divisions (ie fits), to be more commodiously sung to the harp, in places of assembly, where the...adventures and valiances of noble knights in times past, as those of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Bevis of Southampton, and others like."... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1867 - 706 pages
...locality to which the more touching part is attached. Puttenham, in his Art of Poetry (1589), speaks of " places of assembly where the company shall be desirous...valiances of noble knights in times past, as are those of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table — Sir Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwick, and others... | |
| Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1889 - 554 pages
...Great-Britaine, in short and long meeters; and by breaches or divisions to be more commodiously sung to the harpe in places of assembly, where the Company shall be desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiaunces of noble knights in times past; äs are those of king Arthur, and bis knights of the round... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 518 pages
...recorded that long after, in the reign of Elizabeth, it was usual in places of assembly for the company to be desirous to hear of "old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past," as those of King Arthur, and his Knights of the Eound Table. When the Earl of Leicester entertained Queen... | |
| William Henry Schofield - Comparative literature - 1906 - 522 pages
...from any other "romance of prys." Puttenham in 1589 attests that Guy and Beves were popular then at "places of assembly where the company shall be desirous...of old adventures and valiances of noble knights in time past " ; but these were not the castles of the land. He mentions the two among other works as... | |
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