10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMBLESSE»
Discover the use of
humblesse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
humblesse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Middle English Dictionary
.Thought me bireft of slepe the force and myght. al450 (cl4l2) Hoccl.RP 109:
Troubly dremes, drempt al in wakynge, My mayzed heed sleeplees han. .me be-
iapyd. Ibid. 5051: Symple humblesse is of schuch godely-hede pat she of troubly
hate ...
Hans Kurath, Robert E. Lewis, Sherman McAllister Kuhn,
1997
2
Life of Spenser. The Shepheards calendar. The Faerie queene
St. 24 ; and he has " humblesse " again in this Book, C. xii. St. 8. Chaucer has "
humblesse " in his " Knight's Tale ;" but Gower, the Latinised form of humility.
Shakespeare and others avail themselves of nobhss for nobility (" Rich. II." A. iv.
Sc. 1) ...
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier,
1873
Thou must humblesse take on honde, For thanne might thou liker stonde, And for
to speke it other wise A proud man can no love assise. For though a woman
wolde him plese, His pride can nought ben at ese. There may no man to mochel
...
John Gower, Reinhold Pauli,
1857
St. 24.; and he has " humblesse" again in this Book, C. xii. St. 8. Chaucer has "
humblesse " in his " Knight's Tale;" but Gower, the Latinised form of humility.
Shakespeare and others avail themselves of nohle/i for nobility (" Rich. II." A. iv.
Se. l) ...
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier,
1862
5
A Lexicon of French Borrowings in the German Vocabulary ...
376 huguenotisch humblesse Eyzinger 1588 Historia 58: auff der Hugonotten
seitten (59:) dieselben Reformirten oder Hugonotten {wie es etlich nennen} (81:)
die Hugonoten 1589 Discours A4r: einem Hugnotten 1589 Mörderei 4: so (.
William Jervis Jones,
1976
6
Spenser's Amoretti: Analogies of Love
Her "proud port," for example, contains both "myld humblesse" and "awfull
maiesty," just as earlier he discerned her pride as innocence and her "portlinesse
" as honor. Heaven and earth are likewise juxtaposed, as are neo- Platonic and ...
William Clarence Johnson,
1990
7
The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper: ...
And Jupiter so wis my soule gie, To spoken of a servant proprely, With alle
circumstances trewely, That is to sayn, trouth, honour, and knighthede, Wisdom,
humblesse, estat, and high kinrede, Fredom, and all that longeth to that art, So
Jupiter ...
8
Essay on the life and writings of Edmund Spencer [by Philip ...
... t {it Till fast before the King 'he did alight; Where mug—flat great humblesse 3
he did make, " And kist the ground whereon his foot was pight 4; Then to his
handes that writt 5 he did betake, Which he disclosing, read thus, as the paper
spake; ...
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard,
1842
9
Spenser: The Faerie Queene
7–8 weend: supposed; balanced against wist (knew). 9 humblesse: humility, in
contrast to Duessa's 'humblesse low' (ii 21.4). Una submits herself to 'her' knight;
Duessa seeks his submission. 27 And weeping said, Ah my long lacked Lord, ...
10
The British Poets: Including Translations ...
Men speke of Job, and most for his humblesse, As clerkes, whan hem list, can
wel endite, Namely of men, but as in sothfastnesse, Though clerkes preisen
women but a lite, Ther can no man in humblesse him acquite As woman can, ne
can be ...