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"It is called The Romaunt of Dryasdale," said Swansdown.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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The "Romaunt" is to be found in Skeat's edition of the "Complete Works" of Chaucer,
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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May-morning exordium and the recurring machinery of a vision -- to the origin of which latter (the dream of Scipio related by Cicero and expounded in the widely-read Commentary of Macrobius) the opening lines of the "Romaunt" point.
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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Is itself a "Romaunt" which you'd scarce, dear believe;
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones - Love and Beauty drawing for the embroidery 'The Garden of Idleness' from the series 'The Romaunt of the Rose'.
(Sir) Edward Coley Burne-Jones - Love and Beauty Hermes 2009
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Warwick, Palamon and Arcite, and the Romaunt of the Rose, were with her text-books and canonical authorities.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Then Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal poets are his benefactors: the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of
Representative Men 2006
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In his translation of the "Romaunt of the Rose" he belongs to the Middle Ages, -- a period of uncontrolled imagination, of unsubstantial creations, of external appearances copied without reflection.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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Academy of Floral Games, perfectly exhibit the state of the Romaunt tongue and poetry from 1324 to 1496.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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Then she sat down under a branching tree that dropped its leaves about her and into the brook, and began to read the "Romaunt of the Rose": at least, I fancy that was the book she had.
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