 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...  Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Pagina 145di George Burnett - 1807Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Richard Barber - 1986 - 246 pagine
...and overflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, savyng certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said, for pastime and pleasure; which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monkes or wanton canons. As one, for example, Morte Arthure, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pagine
...allured to wantonness, do now boldly contemn all severe books that sound to honesty and godliness. In our forefathers' time, when papistry, as a standing...made in monasteries by idle monks or wanton canons: as one, for example, Morte Arthur, the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two special points... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - 1992 - 390 pagine
...bawdry." "In our forefathers' time," he wrote with marked insistence on the medieval origin of romance, when papistry as a standing pool covered and overflowed...as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks and wanton canons; as one for example, Morte Darthur ... in which book those be counted the noblest... | |
 | Emilia Bazan - 1993 - 172 pagine
...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... | |
 | Jörg Theis - 2004 - 524 pagine
...England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, sauing certaine bookes of Cheualrie, as they sayd, for pastyme 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... | |
 | Steve Mentz - 2006 - 284 pagine
...all England, fewe bookes were read in our long, sauying 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, Mart Arthure; the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
 | Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Cecilia Pietropoli - 2007 - 281 pagine
...function of the local chivalric romance for his Faerie Queene, Roger Ascham wrote in The Schoolmaster. In our forefathers' time, when papistry as a standing...made in monasteries by idle monks or wanton canons; as one, for example, Morte Darthur, the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two special points... | |
 | Michael Alexander - 2007 - 348 pagine
...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 for example, Morte Arthure: the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
 | 1824 - 996 pagine
...overflowed all Englande, fewe bookes were read in our tongue, savyng certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said for pastime and pleasure; which, as some...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... | |
 | Henry Thomas - 1969 - 372 pagine
...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... | |
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