The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... need no more than this to see the Shipman , legs wide - braced on a heaving deck , eyes , under beaten brows strained out into the storm while the ment . After we have learned how the Friar lived by hi. INTRODUCTION xxxix ...
... need no more than this to see the Shipman , legs wide - braced on a heaving deck , eyes , under beaten brows strained out into the storm while the ment . After we have learned how the Friar lived by hi. INTRODUCTION xxxix ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. After we have learned how the Friar lived by hi wits and pleased his very dupes , we part from him with the lines , — " And in his harpyng , whan that he hadde songe , His eyen twynkled in his heed ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. After we have learned how the Friar lived by hi wits and pleased his very dupes , we part from him with the lines , — " And in his harpyng , whan that he hadde songe , His eyen twynkled in his heed ...
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... Friar is commended for loving a barmaid better than a leper : the Doctor loves gold because it has medicinal value : " For gold in physik is a cordial , Therfore he loved gold in speciall . " 1 Sometimes this humor takes the form of ...
... Friar is commended for loving a barmaid better than a leper : the Doctor loves gold because it has medicinal value : " For gold in physik is a cordial , Therfore he loved gold in speciall . " 1 Sometimes this humor takes the form of ...
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... Friar who rides close behind her . It would be useless to call the roll of the Canter- bury pilgrimage . Cast rather a glance along the line and rest content with what that glance tells . A Frank- lin , white - bearded , florid , and in ...
... Friar who rides close behind her . It would be useless to call the roll of the Canter- bury pilgrimage . Cast rather a glance along the line and rest content with what that glance tells . A Frank- lin , white - bearded , florid , and in ...
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... Friars ) , founded about A. I 1180 , compiled their rule from his writings . 189. Therfor is good - much as if to the advice of taking 86 little wine for his stomach's sake a fore I will get drunk every night . " 99 one should reply ...
... Friars ) , founded about A. I 1180 , compiled their rule from his writings . 189. Therfor is good - much as if to the advice of taking 86 little wine for his stomach's sake a fore I will get drunk every night . " 99 one should reply ...
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Page 11 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?
Page 1 - And sikerly she was of greet disport, And ful plesaunt, and amiable of port, And peyned hir to countrefete chere Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence.
Page 7 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 11 - Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men?
Page 7 - For sothe he was a worthy man with-alle, But sooth to seyn, I noot how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That un-to logik hadde longe y-go.