The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 43Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1854 - American periodicals |
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Page 441
... CHAUCER . THE historical circumstances relative to the lineage and place of birth of the great Father of English Poetry , ' Geoffrey Chaucer , are wrapped in some obscurity . His biographers have been very absurdly drawn into ...
... CHAUCER . THE historical circumstances relative to the lineage and place of birth of the great Father of English Poetry , ' Geoffrey Chaucer , are wrapped in some obscurity . His biographers have been very absurdly drawn into ...
Page 442
... Chaucer must then have been at least thirty years of age , the office to which he was ap- pointed was by no means inconsistent with his years : at this time , it was a highly honorable office , as it gave constant access to the royal ...
... Chaucer must then have been at least thirty years of age , the office to which he was ap- pointed was by no means inconsistent with his years : at this time , it was a highly honorable office , as it gave constant access to the royal ...
Page 443
... Chaucer composed some of those gay and sportive effusions of his muse , so well suited to the humor of the times , and so happily adapted to its romantic spirit . About this period , he composed the Complaint of the Black Knight , in ...
... Chaucer composed some of those gay and sportive effusions of his muse , so well suited to the humor of the times , and so happily adapted to its romantic spirit . About this period , he composed the Complaint of the Black Knight , in ...
Page 444
... Chaucer , of course , could not desert his patron ; and without being , ( as has been asserted , ) a follower of Wyckliffe , he went heart and hand with John of Gaunt , in shielding the Reformer from the persecutions of the clergy and ...
... Chaucer , of course , could not desert his patron ; and without being , ( as has been asserted , ) a follower of Wyckliffe , he went heart and hand with John of Gaunt , in shielding the Reformer from the persecutions of the clergy and ...
Page 445
... Chaucer , satisfied with the lucrative post of Comptroller of the Customs of London , did not aspire to any other . It was not long after Lancaster's elevation , before his power and in- fluence began to fail . He soon became equally ...
... Chaucer , satisfied with the lucrative post of Comptroller of the Customs of London , did not aspire to any other . It was not long after Lancaster's elevation , before his power and in- fluence began to fail . He soon became equally ...
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