The Vision of William Concerning Piers the PlowmanClarendon Press, 1869 - 195 頁 |
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第 xi 頁
... written in 1399 , and which has been twice printed by Mr. Wright , the more con- venient edition being that published for the Camden Society in 1838. This is not the place to discuss a question of some difficulty , and concerning which ...
... written in 1399 , and which has been twice printed by Mr. Wright , the more con- venient edition being that published for the Camden Society in 1838. This is not the place to discuss a question of some difficulty , and concerning which ...
第 xi 頁
... written in 1399 , and which has been twice printed by Mr. Wright , the more con- venient edition being that published for the Camden Society in 1838. This is not the place to discuss a question of some difficulty , and concerning which ...
... written in 1399 , and which has been twice printed by Mr. Wright , the more con- venient edition being that published for the Camden Society in 1838. This is not the place to discuss a question of some difficulty , and concerning which ...
第 xii 頁
... written with great asperity , and is a very remarkable poem in many respects ; but I cannot believe that Langland can have been very much pleased with the com- pliment paid him , as it is marked by a lack of charity totally at variance ...
... written with great asperity , and is a very remarkable poem in many respects ; but I cannot believe that Langland can have been very much pleased with the com- pliment paid him , as it is marked by a lack of charity totally at variance ...
第 xiv 頁
... writing the B - text of Do - wel , he was forty - five years of age , and he was therefore born about A.D. 1332 , pro- bably at Cleobury Mortimer . His father and his friends put him to school ( possibly in the monastery at Great ...
... writing the B - text of Do - wel , he was forty - five years of age , and he was therefore born about A.D. 1332 , pro- bably at Cleobury Mortimer . His father and his friends put him to school ( possibly in the monastery at Great ...
第 xv 頁
... written at some time after 1378 , the poet represents himself as still in London , and in the commencement of Passus 5 ( also called Passus 6 , as in Whitaker ) , gives us several particulars concerning himself , wherein he alludes to ...
... written at some time after 1378 , the poet represents himself as still in London , and in the commencement of Passus 5 ( also called Passus 6 , as in Whitaker ) , gives us several particulars concerning himself , wherein he alludes to ...
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A-text atte azein Book of Days called Chaucer Christ comune conscience conseille dede Do-best Do-wel Early English edition Edward III euere fals For-pi forto freres friars gode hath haue heuene hire Icel king kynde lady Langland Latin leue loke London loue maketh manere means Mede Meed Moso-Goth myne myzte namore neuere Notes to Passus nouzte omits owre lorde p. s. pr panne pardoun Pass Passus peple pere Piers Plowman Piers the Plowman pise Ploughman's Crede plural poem prest Prologue quod pieres resoun Richard II rizte sapience saue seide Seven Deadly Sins seyde seynt shal shew shulde somme sone soule spelt subj synne Thanne thou togideres treuthe tyme verb Vision Vulgate wastoures whan who-so William of Palerne wolde worche word Wright wrouzte þanne þat þe kynge þei þere þow
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第 87 頁 - In caelum conscendam, super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum, sedebo in monte testamenti in lateribus aquilonis; ascendam super altitudinem nubium, similis ero Altissimo.
第 xi 頁 - It is in his intense absorbing moral feeling that he is beyond his age : with him outward observances are but hollow shows, mockeries, hypocrisies without the inward power of religion. It is not so much in his keen cutting satire on all matters of the Church as his solemn installation of Reason and Conscience as the guides of the self-directed soul, that he is breaking the yoke of sacerdotal domination; in his constant appeal to the plainest, simplest Scriptural truths, as in themselves the whole...
第 xi 頁 - England,2 commences, and with Chaucer and Wycliffe completes the revelation of this transition period, the reign of Edward III. Throughout its institutions, language, religious sentiment, Teutonism is now holding its first initiatory struggle with Latin Christianity. In Chaucer is heard a voice from the court, from the castle, from the city, from universal England.
第 101 頁 - In 1. 8, the second vision begins, and may be called the Vision of the Seven Deadly Sins, and of Piers the Plowman.
第 xi 頁 - But it is against their degenerate sons that he arrays his allegorical Host ; the Friars furnish every impersonated vice, are foes to every virtue ; his bitterest satire, his keenest irony (and these weapons he wields with wonderful poetic force) are against their dissoluteness, their idleness, their pride, their rapacity, their arts, their lies, their hypocrisy, their intrusion into the functions of the Clergy, their delicate attire, their dainty feasts, their magnificent buildings...
第 xi 頁 - On such a king the commonalty would cheerfully and amply bestow sufficient revenue for all the dignity of his office, and the exigencies of the state, even for his conquests. No doubt that commonalty would first have absorbed the wealth of the hierarchy. He is not absolutely superior to that hatred of the French, nor even to the ambition for the conquest of France engendered by Edward's wars and his victories. And yet his shrewd common sense cannot but see the injustice and cruelty of those aggressive...
第 95 頁 - ... men to the bedrip, or two men and an overman, that is a foreman. The kindly services rendered to the lord in seed-time and harvest were otherwise called precations, gifel-works, and love-boons. The days on which they were rendered used to be called boon-days, and occasionally love-days : a love-day more commonly meant a law-day, a day set apart for a leet or manorial court, a day of final concord and reconciliation : as we read in the Coventry Mysteries : " Now is the love-day mad of us foure...
第 xiv 頁 - Do-bet, where he dreams of that which has been already accomplished, so here he wakes in tears, at the thought of how much remains to be done. So far from ending carelessly, he...
第 xxvii 頁 - I was wery forwandred • and went me to reste Vnder a brode banke ' bi a bornes side, And as I lay and lened • and loked in the wateres I slombred in a slepyng • it sweyued so merye.
第 87 頁 - From diamond quarries hewn, and rocks of gold ; The palace of great Lucifer, (so call That structure in the dialect of men Interpreted...