Saintsbury
Cited as Saintsbury. — 15 quotations
Arthurian
In magnitude, in interest, and as a literary origin, the Arthurian invention dwarfs all other things in the book.
Bestiary
A bestiary . . . in itself one of the numerous mediæval renderings of the fantastic mystical Zoology.
Chanson de geste
Langtoft had written in the ordinary measure of the later chansons de geste.
Donnée
That favorite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own.
Flite
The bird of Pallas has also a good “flyte” on the moral side . . . in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands.
Flitting
These “flytings” consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.
Game
It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
Genre
French drama was lisping or still inarticulate; the great French genre of the fabliau was hardly born.
Gospel
If any one thinks this expression hyperbolical, I shall only ask him to read Œdipus, instead of taking the traditional witticisms about Lee for gospel.
Hedge
The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads.
Oddment
A miscellaneous collection of riddles, charms, gnomic verses, and “oddments” of different kinds.
Plump
After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas.
Precious
Elaborate embroidery of precious language.
Telltale
It supplies many useful links and telltales.
Touchy
It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks.