10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORTESSE»
Discover the use of
portesse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
portesse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
See Portesse. Portance, s. Carriage, manner, deportment. — But your loves,
Thinking upon his services, took from you The apprehension of his present
portance. Coriol. ii. 3. But, for in court gay portaunce he perceiv'd, And gallant
shew to be ...
2
Life of Spenser. The Shepheards calendar. The Faerie queene
Reg." iv. 12; and Richardson states that the " amis," or amice, is the first of the six
vestments common to the bishop and presbyters, fastened round the neck and
spread over the shoulders. The " portesse," mentioned in line 1 of the next Stanza
, ...
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, 1873
And in his hand his Portesse still he bare, , * Great _7unoes golden chayre.] The
chaire or chariot of Juno, was famous among poets: hence Virgil, En. i. 21. Hic
currus fuit, here at Carthage was her chaire. Spenser says golden chaire: Homer
...
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, 1862
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
PORTAL, See PORTESSE. PORTANCE, s. Carriage, manner, deportment. — But
your loves, Thinking upon his services, took from you The apprehension of his
present parlance. Coriol. ii. 3. But, for in court gay portaunce he perceiv'd, And ...
5
The Works of Edmund Spenser
And in his hand his portesse still he bare, XVIII. 2. On which her six sage
counsellours did ryde,] The moral allegory hints at the Seven deadly Sins, as they
are called. The chief of all is Pride. She with her fix fage counselloure make up
the ...
Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd, 1805
6
The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England
An unread "Portesse" or portable breviary suggests not only an idle reader but
also an idle book. That Idlenesse's prayer book is "worne, but therein little red"
suggests not only a calculated attempt to make the book look worn from use but
also ...
James Joseph Kearney, 2009
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A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
I, cap. 5, where it is provided that no person shall import, print, sell, or buy, any
popish primers, &c, breviaries, portals, legends, &c. I'll take my portaee forth, and
wed you here. Greene's Friar Bacon, sign. C 4. And in his hand his portesse still ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1867
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The Chambers Dictionary
See portesse portate. portatile. portative, port-crayon. See under port3 portcullis
port- or port-kit!' is. n a grating that can be let down to close a gateway of a castle,
fortress, etc: a lattice (heraldry): one of the pursuivants of the English College of ...
Spenser fastens this vice especially upon the clergy,— " Upon a slouthfull asse
he chose to ryde, Arayd in habit blacke, and amis thin, Like to an holy monck, the
service to begin. And in his hand his portesse still he bare, That much was worne,
...
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Faerie Queen Book 1 (A.O.L.T)
And in his hand his Portesse still he bare, 19.1 That much was worne, but therein
little red, For of deuotion he had little care, are transformed when afflicted by them
, becomes evident. The pageant of sins is considered a triumph of grotesque, ...
M. C. (ed.), Jussawala, 1981
