"Geste" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... any one wants to know bold Robin as he really was, let him straightway possess himself of those two delightful volumes for which we are indebted to Mr Gutch. We have here not only the consecutive series of ballads known as "The Lytell Geste of Robin Hode," but every ballad, tale, and song, relating to the famous outlaw; and the whole are beautifully illustrated. Mr Gutch thoroughly understands the duty of an editor, and has applied himself heart ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various
... "Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood," printed in London by Wynken de Worde, and again in Edinburgh by Chepman and Myllar in 1508, in the first year of the establishment of ...
— A Bundle of Ballads • Various
... The father begs the maiden to excuse his speech, for he really thought his pearl was wholly lost to him.] A Iuel to me en wat[gh] ys geste, & iuele[gh] wern hyr ge{n}tyl sawe[gh], "I-wyse," q{uod} I, "my blysfol beste, My grete dystresse {o}u al to-drawe[gh], 280 To be excused I make requeste; I trawed my perle don out of dawe[gh], Now haf I fonde hyt I schal ma feste, & wony w{i}t{h} hyt i{n} ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... a Norman, for the poem is written in the Norman dialect; but it is uncertain whether the Turoldus or Theroulde named in the last line of the poem, "Thus endeth here the geste Turoldus sang," was the author, a copyist, ...
— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb
... in the awful importance of the great question which occupies his attention, and nothing indicates the least consciousness of the multitude which surrounds him, or even that he is giving utterance to the mighty thoughts which crowd upon his mind. "Talma ne faisoit pas un geste, quelquefois seulement il remuoit la tete pour questioner la terre et le ciel sur ce que c'est que la mort! Immobile, la dignite de la meditation absorboit tout son etre."—De l'Allemagne, 1. c. We could wish to avoid any attempt ...
— Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 • Archibald Alison
... underlies the aftergrowth of romance; certainly they were history to the people, and as such, with a mental reservation, they shall be history to us. We propose, therefore, here to convert into prose "a lytell geste of Robyn Hode." ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... of our old ballads, in an intercourse between Robin Hood and England's king. But according to the oldest of the ballads, (or rather poems, for it is too long for a ballad, and composed of many parts,) The Lyttel Geste of Robin Hood, this king of England was Edward the First; so that the existence of the "bold outlaw" is antedated by the author of Ivanhoe upwards of seventy years. This, however, does not affect ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies" [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery. conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey[obs3], whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest[obs3], geste[obs3], extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne[Fr]; Utopia, Atlantis[obs3], happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... come un-to his neces place, 'Wher is my lady?' to hir folk seyde he; And they him tolde; and he forth in gan pace, 80 And fond, two othere ladyes sete and she, With-inne a paved parlour; and they three Herden a mayden reden hem the geste Of the Sege of ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer |
