Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion 1357-1900, Volume 3The University Press, 1925 |
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... written Ceyx and Alcyone . In any case the Hous of Fame is far more French than Italian . ] [ c . 1444. Lydgate , John . ] Poem on the truce of 1444 . [ See pt . i , p . 46 . Troilus , iii , 1415. ] Comoun Astrologeer . . ... Professor ...
... written Ceyx and Alcyone . In any case the Hous of Fame is far more French than Italian . ] [ c . 1444. Lydgate , John . ] Poem on the truce of 1444 . [ See pt . i , p . 46 . Troilus , iii , 1415. ] Comoun Astrologeer . . ... Professor ...
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... written on the flyleaf of a copy of Durandus , Rationale Divinorum Officiorum , Lyons , 1506 , printed in Notes and Queries , ser . i , vol . vii , pp . 568-9 , 11 June 1853 , by W. H. G. [ Stanza 4th and last begins : ] O ye imps of ...
... written on the flyleaf of a copy of Durandus , Rationale Divinorum Officiorum , Lyons , 1506 , printed in Notes and Queries , ser . i , vol . vii , pp . 568-9 , 11 June 1853 , by W. H. G. [ Stanza 4th and last begins : ] O ye imps of ...
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... the following lines- [ quotes Leland's verses ] . APPENDIX . From the Catalogue of Leland Among the lawyers in those days the most celebrated was John Gower , whose life we have written . An 26 [ A.D. 1557- Appendix A.
... the following lines- [ quotes Leland's verses ] . APPENDIX . From the Catalogue of Leland Among the lawyers in those days the most celebrated was John Gower , whose life we have written . An 26 [ A.D. 1557- Appendix A.
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... written tersely and beautifully in their own languages . Dante and Petrarch in Italian , Alain [ Chartier ] in French , John Mena in Spanish , and the many others who at that time had written in polished language , were a spur to ...
... written tersely and beautifully in their own languages . Dante and Petrarch in Italian , Alain [ Chartier ] in French , John Mena in Spanish , and the many others who at that time had written in polished language , were a spur to ...
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... written first in Italian by Bandell , and nowe in Englishe by Ar . Br . [ Brooke's poem was one of the main sources of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . For a fuller account of Brooke's debt to Chaucer , see Romeus and Juliet ...
... written first in Italian by Bandell , and nowe in Englishe by Ar . Br . [ Brooke's poem was one of the main sources of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . For a fuller account of Brooke's debt to Chaucer , see Romeus and Juliet ...
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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900, Volume 3 Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon No preview available - 1960 |
Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900, Volume 3 Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon No preview available - 1960 |
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Page 94 - I have waded through Mr. Tyrrwhit's most tedious notes to the "Canterbury Tales," for a true Antiquary can still be zealous to settle the genuine shape of a lump of mineral from which Dryden extracted all the gold, and converted [it] into beautiful medals.
Page 54 - IN Bath a wanton wife did dwell, As Chaucer he doth write, Who did in pleasure spend her days, In many a fond delight. Upon a time...
Page 102 - It is worth while here to observe, that the affecting parts of Chaucer are almost always expressed in language pure and universally intelligible even to this day.
Page 102 - In defence of my opinion about the nightingales, I find Chaucer, — who of all poets seems to have been the fondest of the singing of birds, — calls it a merry note...
Page 88 - Birch, Thomas. The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, engraven by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue. With their lives and characters by Thomas Birch.
Page 52 - Not manie Chawcers, or Lidgates, Gowers, or Occleues, Surries, or Heywoods, in those dayes : & how few Aschams or Phaers, Sidneys or Spensers, Warners or Daniels, Siluesters or Chapmans, in this pregnant age. But when shall we tast the preserued dainties of Sir Edward Dier, Sir Walter Raleigh, 'M. Secretarie...
Page 108 - The moon shines bright; in such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise, in such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 105 - In all ages of our literary history it seems to have been considered almost as an essential part of a poet's duty to give up some pages to Scriptural story, or to the praise of his Maker, how remote soever from anything like religion the general strain of his writings might be. Witness the "Lamentation of Mary Magdalene" in the works of Chaucer, and the beautiful legend of " Hew of Lincoln," which he has inserted in the " Canterbury Tales ;" witness also the hymns of Ben Jonson.
Page 4 - So wolde god, that my symple connyng Ware sufficiaunt this goodly flour to prayse, For as to me ys non so ryche a thyng That able were this flour to countirpayse, O noble Chaucer, passyd ben thy dayse, Off poetrye ynamyd worthyest, And of makyng in alle othir days the best.
Page 74 - I find the first mention of this proverb in our English Ennius, Chaucer, in his Proeme to the Cook— "And many a Jack of Dover he had sold, Which had been two times hot, and two times cold.