In our forefathers tyme, whan Papistrie, as a standyng poole, covered and overflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, savyng certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries... A History of the Church and Priory of Swine in Holderness ... - Page 139by Thomas Thompson - 1824 - 268 pagesFull view - About this book
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 336 pages
...and overflowed all England, fewe books were read in our tongue, savyng certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said, for pastime and pleasure ; which, as some say, were made in the monasteries, by idle monks or wanton chanons. As one for example, La Morlc d' Arthure ; the whole... | |
| Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 504 pages
...ouerflowed all England, few bookes were red in our toong, sauyng certayne Bookes of Chiualrie, as they sayd for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monkes or wanton chanons : as one for example, MORTE ARTHUR, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...overflowed all Englande, fewe bookes were read in our tongue, savying certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said for pastime and pleasure ; which, as...were made in monasteries by idle monks, or wanton chanons. As for example, La Morte d' Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two speciall... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 574 pages
...fewe bookes were read in our tongue, savyng certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said for pastyme and pleasure ; which as some say were made in monasteries by idle monks or wanton chanons. As for example, La Morte d' Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two speciall... | |
| Walter Scott - Chilvary - 1834 - 424 pages
...overflowed all Englande, fewe bookes "were read in our tongue, savying certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said for pastime and pleasure ; which, as...•were made in monasteries by idle monks, or wanton chanons. As for example, La Morte lf Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two speciall... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 418 pages
...overflowed all Englcmde, fewe bookes •were read in our tongue, savying certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said for pastime and pleasure ; which, as...were made in monasteries by idle monks, or wanton chanons. As for example, La Morte d' Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two speciall... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1836 - 328 pages
...and overflowed all England, fewe books were read in our tongue, savying certainc bookes of chevalrie, as they said, for pastime and pleasure ; which, as some say, were made in the monasteries, by idle monks or wanton chanons. As one, for example, La Morte tf Arthure; the whole... | |
| J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 370 pages
...advantage Caxton proposed to derive from them ; and what says Roger Ascham in his " Scholemaster ?'" " In our forefathers' time, when papistry, as a standing...pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monas• Baths. teries, by idle monks, and canons ; for example, Morte Arthur, the whole pleasure of... | |
| Sir John Dorney Harding - Arthurian romance - 1838 - 86 pages
...overflowed all England, few books were red in our toong savyng certayne bookes of chivalrie, as they sayd for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monkes or wanton chanons; as one for example, Morte Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...and overflowed all England, tewe books were read in our tongue, «avyng certain bookes of chevaine, as they said, for pastime and pleasure; which, as some say, were made in the monasteries, by idle monks or wonton chanoas. A» one for example, ¿л marte ¡ГЛгиапг;... | |
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