Chaucer: A Bibliographical ManualMacmillan, 1908 - 579 pages |
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Page 45
... lines of elegy , and on p . 490 gives " the Inscriptions vpon his Tombe at this day " The epitaph is as in Camden ... lines of Latin below the mention of Brigham do not appear . The date 1556 is below the line naming Brigham . Ashmole ...
... lines of elegy , and on p . 490 gives " the Inscriptions vpon his Tombe at this day " The epitaph is as in Camden ... lines of Latin below the mention of Brigham do not appear . The date 1556 is below the line naming Brigham . Ashmole ...
Page 47
... lines of Latin , the date , a single line of Latin , and the line giving Brigham's name ; below this appears the date 1556. A shield of the arms is on each side of the epitaph , and in each of the sculptured quatrefoils on the front of ...
... lines of Latin , the date , a single line of Latin , and the line giving Brigham's name ; below this appears the date 1556. A shield of the arms is on each side of the epitaph , and in each of the sculptured quatrefoils on the front of ...
Page 75
... lines 1059-60 and in the HoFame 1413 , cp . MancTale line 122. The story of Alex- ander is briefly and generally told MoTale 641 ff . , but in the HoFame 915 ff . there is a specific reference to a story con- cerning him recounted in ...
... lines 1059-60 and in the HoFame 1413 , cp . MancTale line 122. The story of Alex- ander is briefly and generally told MoTale 641 ff . , but in the HoFame 915 ff . there is a specific reference to a story con- cerning him recounted in ...
Page 82
... lines derived from Dante : some of these are pointed out by Cary , viz . , LGW 2638 from Inferno 7 : 64 ; MoTale 487 from Inferno 5:56 ; HoF 201 ff . cp . Purgatorio 28 : 9 ff .; Troilus 5 549 cp . Purgat . 23:31 ; Troilus 3 : 1693-4 cp ...
... lines derived from Dante : some of these are pointed out by Cary , viz . , LGW 2638 from Inferno 7 : 64 ; MoTale 487 from Inferno 5:56 ; HoF 201 ff . cp . Purgatorio 28 : 9 ff .; Troilus 5 549 cp . Purgat . 23:31 ; Troilus 3 : 1693-4 cp ...
Page 85
... lines 130-133 . According to Lounsbury , Studies II : 381-2 , Albricus ' work is printed in Van Staveren's Auctores Mythographi Latini , Leyden 1742 . Alexander - saga : -The legend of Alexander is alluded to in HoFame 915 , MoTale 641 ...
... lines 130-133 . According to Lounsbury , Studies II : 381-2 , Albricus ' work is printed in Van Staveren's Auctores Mythographi Latini , Leyden 1742 . Alexander - saga : -The legend of Alexander is alluded to in HoFame 915 , MoTale 641 ...
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Page 484 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 484 - As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Page 56 - Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng craftily, Hath seyd hem in swich Englissh as he kan, Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another. For he hath toold of loveris up and doun Mo than Ovide made of mencioun, In hise Episteles that been ful olde; What sholde I tellen hem, syn they ben tolde?
Page 485 - He was short-sholdred, brood, a thikke knarre, Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, Or breke it, at a renning, with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade.
Page 519 - Tale, of the Canterbury Tales, in 6 parallel Texts (from the 6 MSS named below), together with Tables, showing the Groups of the Tales, and their varying order in 38 MSS of the Tales, and in 5 old printed editions, and also Specimens from several MSS of the "Moveable Prologues...
Page 520 - XV. The Man of Law's, Shipman's, and Prioress's Tales, with Chaucer's own Tale of Sir Thopas, in 6 parallel Texts from the MSS above named, and 10 coloured drawings of Tellers of Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS.
Page 521 - XXIII. Odd Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I, containing 1. two MS fragments of ' The Parlament of Foules ; ' 2. the two differing versions of ' The Prologue to the Legende of Good Women,' arranged so as to show their differences ; 3.
Page 468 - Chaucer's time ended in e originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume that our ancestors first passed from the broader sound of a to the thinner sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute.
Page 521 - The Cronycle made by Chaucer,' both from MSS written by Shirley, Chaucer's contemporary. XXIV. A One-Text Print of Chaucer's Minor Poems, being the best Text from the Parallel-Text Edition, Part I, containing, I. The Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse, II.
Page 496 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death (Paradise Lost, ii. 621), and in Pope's: And ten low words oft creep in one dull line (Essay on Criticism, 1.