- ... thrust a leaden bodkin into the head of that image
- ‘... called secretly at the chamber dore’
- ‘... cast her into a cauldron’
- ‘... compellyd them for to devour the same writte’
- ‘... constructed a pantomime dragon on the pattern of the real article’
- '... crossed to England’'
- ... caused to sytte down and in large wyse to gape
- ... sware ‘gret othes’ and took himself by the hair
- Robert Berewold in the pillory
- The unfortunate “fowle” was “hurten so sore”’
- sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris
- A young novice of the priory
- A ‘herauld’
- Pilgrims
- ‘The broken bough fell on the head of a man standing down below’
- ‘The tiger and the mirror’
- ‘The young Edward III.’
- ‘When a lion looks at you it becomes a leopard’
- ‘Dymoke of Scrivelsby’
- ‘Hakeney’
- ‘He incontinently fled’
- ‘Henry’s badge’
- ‘St. Piran’
- ‘latten “Agnus Dei”’
- ‘... playing innumerable pranks’
- ‘... showed him his injuries’
- ‘... thrust him out of the church’
- ‘... with drawn swords stood in the doorway’
- ‘A wonderful sight’
- ‘An impromptu entertainment by three minstrels’
- ‘Diabolus ligatus’
- ‘... failed to identify the geese’
- ‘... fully armed with swords and bucklers’
- ‘... got his arms round a branch’
- ‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’
- ‘... led through the middle of the city’
- ‘... ducking him in a horse-pond’
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Young Lady - 1920s - Jane Austen
Twenty years after Evelina, the novel of femininity took a further step in technique and breadth of design. Miss Austen, who in the last decade of the eighteenth century was writing the novels that were not to be published till after the first decade of the nineteenth, learnt from both her precursors. She was a proper follower of Richardson, but dispensed altogether with the artifice of letters, although the whole of her work is so intimate and particular in expression that it would almost seem to be written in a letter to the reader. - Fanny Burney
Fanny Burney took more material with a lighter hand, stealing away the business of The Tatler, The Spectator, The Citizen of the World, and trying not only to 'draw characters from nature' but also to 'mark the manners of the time.' - Daniel Defoe
With an imagination scarcely less opulent than Bunyan's, Defoe, if he had described a dream, would have managed somehow to make it as short-winded and inconsequent as a real one. He was in love with verisimilitude, and delighted in facts for their own sakes. 'To read Defoe,' wrote Charles Lamb, 'is like hearing evidence in a Court of Justice.' No compliment could have pleased him better. - Sir Philip Sidney
This is no insult to Sir Philip Sidney, but only to the rather exorbitant demands of the form he had chosen. His own sonnets vindicate him as a poet, and some of them, even Hazlitt owned, who did not like him, 'are sweet even to a sense of faintness, luscious as the woodbine, and graceful and luxurious like it.' - John Bunyan
Bunyan's business was the description of a pilgrim's progress through a world thus vividly good and bad. His choice of allegory as a method allowed him to illustrate at the same time the earnestness of his times and their extraordinary clarity of sensation. It was a form ready to his hand. The authorised version of the Bible, published in 1611, its English retaining the savour of a style then out of date, formed at once his writing and his method, as it constituted his education. 'My Bible and Concordance are my only library in my writings.' - Henry Fielding
Out of this general efflorescence were to spring two branches of story-telling different and hostile from the start. The novel was given sex. Richardson had scarcely invented the feminine novel before Fielding and Smollett were at work producing books of a masculinity correspondingly pronounced. Fielding was the first to mark the difference, and Richardson to the end of his life hated him for writing Joseph Andrews. It often happens that one philosopher hates another whose system though less elaborate is obviously founded on a broader basis than his own. Fielding could afford to laugh at Richardson, but Richardson could never laugh at Fielding. - Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer's was a fairly simple nature. He seems to have taken to Renaissance fashions just as he took to Renaissance learning, without in the least disturbing the solid Englishness of his foundation. He married a Damsell Philippa without letting his marriage interfere with an ideal and unrequited passion like that of Petrarch for Laura. He had Jean de Meung's own reverence for the classics. - The Royal Prince
On the third day, June 3rd, the Royal Prince, bearing the flag of Sir George Ayscue, the largest and heaviest ship in the English fleet, ran on the Galloper shoal, and being threatened by fire-ships, surrended. The ship was burnt, and the crew, including the admiral, were made prisoners.