The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Emily's com pany : " What asketh man to have , Now with his love now in his colde grave Allone withouten any compaignye ? " " In the following lines the very structure of the verse , the balanced participles , " giggynge , " " lacynge ...
... Emily's com pany : " What asketh man to have , Now with his love now in his colde grave Allone withouten any compaignye ? " " In the following lines the very structure of the verse , the balanced participles , " giggynge , " " lacynge ...
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... Emily hadde hir pleyínge . " Knight's Tale , 1. 203 . ( c ) As in modern verse , final syllables containing an or rare are readily slurred . Thus : heaven o heav'n , ever or ev'r , evil or ev'l , lytel or lyt'l , et Words ending in -we ...
... Emily hadde hir pleyínge . " Knight's Tale , 1. 203 . ( c ) As in modern verse , final syllables containing an or rare are readily slurred . Thus : heaven o heav'n , ever or ev'r , evil or ev'l , lytel or lyt'l , et Words ending in -we ...
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... Emily appears but once to the two cousins . From that mo ment they are avowed rivals . The story thus loses something in delicacy of analysis , but gains in naturalness . Chaucer makes Palamon see Emily first . The change is of slight ...
... Emily appears but once to the two cousins . From that mo ment they are avowed rivals . The story thus loses something in delicacy of analysis , but gains in naturalness . Chaucer makes Palamon see Emily first . The change is of slight ...
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... Emily , defies him . The ch lenge is accepted without bate . They fight silently ( s 1. 791 , note ) . Thus the meeting of the riva in the woods becomes mere casual , but gains immensely dramatic effect , while by t omission of all ...
... Emily , defies him . The ch lenge is accepted without bate . They fight silently ( s 1. 791 , note ) . Thus the meeting of the riva in the woods becomes mere casual , but gains immensely dramatic effect , while by t omission of all ...
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... Emily and Palamon , and w no parade of generosity , embarrassing insistence , o suggests to Emily : - - 66 ... if that ever ye shal been a Forget nat Palamon , the gentil mo 1. 193 I know of no instance wh Chaucer's fineness of nat ...
... Emily and Palamon , and w no parade of generosity , embarrassing insistence , o suggests to Emily : - - 66 ... if that ever ye shal been a Forget nat Palamon , the gentil mo 1. 193 I know of no instance wh Chaucer's fineness of nat ...
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