Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 39 pages of information about Sappho.

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 39 pages of information about Sappho.

45.  The song of Roland.

Newly translated from the old French by Mrs. Crosland.  Introduction by
Professor brandin, University of London.  Frontispiece.

22.  Early lives of Charlemagne.

Translated and edited by A.J.  Grant.  With frontispiece representing an early bronze figure of Charlemagne from the Musee Carnavalet, Paris.

We have here given us two “Lives” of Charlemagne by contemporary authorities—­one by Eginhard and the other by the Monk of St. Gall.  Very different in style, when brought together in one volume each supplies the deficiencies of the other.

35.  Wine, women, and song.

Mediaeval students’ songs, translated from the Latin, with an essay, by
John Addington Symonds.  Frontispiece after a fifteenth-century woodcut.

18.  The vision of piers the Plowman.

By William Langland; in modern English by Professor SKEAT, Litt.D. 
Frontispiece, “God Speed the Plough,” from an old Ms.

8.  CHAUCER’S KNIGHT’S tale, or Palamon and Arcite.

In modern English by Professor SKEAT, Litt.D.  Frontispiece, “The Canterbury Pilgrims,” from an illuminated Ms.

9.  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 from 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.

41.  CHAUCER’S legend of good women.

In modern English, with notes and introduction, by Professor W.W.  SKEAT, Litt.D.  Frontispiece, “Ariadne Deserted,” after the painting by Angelica Kaufmann.

36, 37.  George PETTIE’S “Petite Palace of Pettie his pleasure.”

The popular Elizabethan book containing twelve classical love-stories—­ “Sinorex and Camma,” “Tereus and Progne,” etc.—­in style the precursor of Euphues, now first reprinted under the editorship of Professor I. GOLLANCZ.  Frontispieces, a reproduction of the original title, and of an original page.

In two volumes.

21.  The memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth.

Being a contemporary record of the life of that nobleman as Warden of the
Marches and at the Court of Elizabeth.

Editor, G.H.  Powell.  With frontispiece from the original edition, representing Queen Elizabeth in a state procession, with the Earl of Monmouth and others in attendance.

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