The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: Monk of St. Edmundsbury: a Picture of Monastic and Social Life in the XIIth Century

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Chatto & Windus, 1907 - Всего страниц: 255
 

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Стр. 17 - Three times in each week, after leaving the chapter, did we prostrate ourselves in the choir and sing seven penitential psalms. And there were some who would not ! have been so earnest in their prayers if they had known who was to become abbot. As to the choice of an abbot, if the king should grant us free election, there was much difference of opinion, some of it openly expressed, some of it privately ; and every man had his own ideas.
Стр. 8 - CHAUCER'S MAN OF LAW'S TALE, Squire's Tale, and Nun's Priest's Tale. In modern English by Professor SKEAT, Litt.D. Frontispiece rom an illuminated MS. 10. CHAUCER'S PRIORESS'S TALE, Pardoner's Tale, Clerk's Tale, and Canon's Yeoman's Tale. In modern English by Professor SKEAT, Litt.D. Frontispiece, " The Patient Griselda," from the well-known fifteenth-century picture of the Umbrian School in the National Gallery.
Стр. 9 - Ass" of Apuleius, translated by W. ADLINGTON (1566), edited by WHD ROUSE, Litt.D. With frontispiece representing the " Marriage of Cupid and Psyche," after a gem now in the British Museum.
Стр. 126 - How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
Стр. 8 - Griselda," from the well-known fifteenth-century picture of the Umbrian School in the National Gallery. 11. THE ROMANCE OF FULK FITZWARINE. Newly translated from the Anglo-French by ALICE KEMPWELCH, with an introduction by Professor BRANDIN. Frontispiece, Whittington Castle in Shropshire, the seat of the Fitzwarines. 12. THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE. From "The Golden Ass" of Apuleius, translated by W.
Стр. 6 - This is the hour of darkness; this is the hour in the which flatterers triumph and are believed; their might is increased, nor can we prevail against them. These things must be endured for a while; the Lord see and judge...
Стр. xiii - Edmundsbury walls, I say, were not peopled with fantasms ; but with men of flesh and blood, made altogether as we are. Had thou and I then been, who knows but we ourselves had taken refuge from an evil Time, and fled to dwell here, and meditate on an Eternity, in such fashion as we could ? Alas, how like an old osseous fragment, a broken blackened shin-bone of the old dead Ages, this black ruin looks out, not yet covered by the soil ; still indicating what a once gigantic Life lies buried there I...
Стр. 44 - When Samson was made Abbot of St. Edmundsbury, though he himself was no huntsman he thought it only consonant with his position to make a game forest. "He made many parks which he filled with beasts, and had a huntsman and dogs. And whenever any important guest arrived, he used to sit with his monks in some retired grove, and watch the coursing for a while...
Стр. 9 - POLONIUS, a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. By EDWARD FITZGERALD. With portrait of Edward FitzGerald from the miniature by Mrs. EMB RIVETT-CARNAC as frontispiece ; notes and index. Contains a preface by EDWARD FITZGERALD, on Aphorisms generally.
Стр. 7 - Newly edited, with introduction, notes, table of dates relating to the Abbey of St. Edmundsbury, and index, by Sir ERNEST CLARKE, FSA With seal of Abbot Samson (AD 1200) as frontispiece.

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