Resurrexio Domini nostri. Notes. Sketch of Cornish grammar. Ancient Cornish vocabulary. Appendix. Names of places

Edwin Norris

The University Press, 1859

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Page 488 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.

Page 447 - English, a miracle play, is a kinde of interlude, compiled in Cornish out of some Scripture history, with that grossenes which accompanied the Romanes vetus Comedia. For representing it, they raise an earthen amphitheatre in some open field, having the Diameter of his enclosed playne some 40 or 50 foot. The Country people flock from all sides, many miles off to hear and see it ; for they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the eare...

Page 447 - In the lower they apparelled themselves, and in the higher rowme they played, beinge all open on the tope, that all behoulders might heare and see them. The places where they played them was in every streete.

Page 450 - ... of the general history of the Creation, the Fall, and the Redemption of man, however it might be marred occasionally by passages of lighter or even of ludicrous character. The mighty gathering of people from many miles round, hardly showing like a crowd in that extended region, where nothing ever grows to limit the view on any side, with their booths or tents, absolutely necessary when so many people had to remain three days on the spot, would give a character to the assembly probably more like...

Page 447 - ... the players conne not their parts without booke, but are prompted by one called the ordinary, who followeth at their back with the book in his hand, and telleth them softly what they must pronounce aloud.

Page 436 - ... drama of the Christian faith. To us, who can measure the effect of such scenes only by the impression which they would now produce upon ourselves, these exhibitions can seem but unspeakably profane; they were not profane when tendered in simplicity, and received as they were given. They were no more profane than those quaint monastic illuminations which formed the germ of Italian art; and as out of the illuminations arose those paintings which remain unapproached and unapproachable in their excellence,...

Page 448 - ... prompted by one called the ordinary, who followeth at their back with the book in his hand, and telleth them softly what they must pronounce aloud. Which...

Page 458 - is not to be gutturally pronounced, as the Welsh for the most part is, nor mutteringly, as the Armorick, nor whiningly, as the Irish (which two latter qualities seem to have been contracted from their servitude), but must be lively and manly spoken, like other primitive tongues ! " .enter largely into the composition of Cornish local names.

Page 446 - ... being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the several! scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators: and contain'd the story of the New Testament, composed into old English Eithme, as appeareth by an ancient MS. intituled Ludus Corforii Christi, or Ludus Conventrlae. I have been told...

Page 467 - Falemuth ys a havyn very notable and famose, and yn a maner the most principale of al Britayne ; for the chanel of the entre hath be space of ii. myles ynto the land xiiii. fadum of depes...

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• Titre: Resurrexio Domini nostri. Notes. Sketch of Cornish grammar. Ancient Cornish vocabulary. Appendix. Names of places; Volume 2 de The Ancient Cornish Drama, Edwin Norris
• Rédacteur: Edwin Norris
• Éditeur: The University Press, 1859
• Original provenant de: la New York Public Library
• Numérisé: 3 juil. 2007