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
| Thomas Nash - 1910 - 496 pages
...all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, sauyng certaine bookes of Cheualrie, 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 Arthure: the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
| Thomas Nash - 1910 - 486 pages
...all England, fewe bookes were read in our long, sauyng certaine bookes of Cheualrie, 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 Arthure: the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - Anthologies - 1911 - 452 pages
...of all the rest shall be The glory of my work and me. R. HERRICK. Noble Numbers. BOOKS THAT DO HURT In our forefathers' time, when papistry, as a standing...by idle monks or wanton canons. As one for example, ' Morte Arthur ', the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two special points, in open manslaughter... | |
| John Milton Berdan - English poetry - 1920 - 602 pages
...ouerflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, sauyng certaine bookes Cheualrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries, by idle Monkes, or wanton Canons: as one for example, Mori.-. Arthure: the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
| Basil Willey - History - 1922 - 90 pages
...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, by idle Monkes, or wanton Chanons : as one example, Morte Arthur e : the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 1122 pages
...and overflowed all England, fewe books were read in our tongue, savying 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 Morte d'Arthure; the whole... | |
| Carey Herbert Conley - Classical literature - 1927 - 176 pages
...ouerflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, sauing certaine bookes Cheualrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries, by idle Monkes, or wanwere frequently distributed from the same peddlers' bags as the polemics emanating from... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1928 - 386 pages
...all England, fewe bookes were read in our tongue, savyng certaine bookes of Chevalrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries by idle Monkes, or wanton Chanons ; as are for example Morte Arthure : the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...evident in the discussion of teaching methods, he shows the narrowness of the Protestant Humanist: "In our forefathers' time, when Papistry, as a standing...by idle monks or wanton canons, as one for example, Morte Arthure, the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two special points, in open manslaughter... | |
| Derek Attridge - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 272 pages
...all England, fewe bookes were read in our long, savyng certaine bookes of Chevalrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries, by idle Monkfs or wanton Chanons. (Smith, I, 3) Even Puttenham, trying to defend rhyming verse by proving that... | |
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