The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Prioress , fine lady born and bred , and the Wife of Bath , jovial but frankly vulgar tradeswoman ; for the pale and studious Clerk , and the boisterous Somnour with his " fir - reed Cherubynnes face . " All this we shall consider more ...
... Prioress , fine lady born and bred , and the Wife of Bath , jovial but frankly vulgar tradeswoman ; for the pale and studious Clerk , and the boisterous Somnour with his " fir - reed Cherubynnes face . " All this we shall consider more ...
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... Prioress is sentimental and tender - hearted when you learn that a trapped mouse claimed her tears , that the death or even the chastisement of one of her lapdogs caused bitter weeping , finally that the same " smale houndes , " on a ...
... Prioress is sentimental and tender - hearted when you learn that a trapped mouse claimed her tears , that the death or even the chastisement of one of her lapdogs caused bitter weeping , finally that the same " smale houndes , " on a ...
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... Prioress escapes with only a fling at her airs and graces ; the Monk provokes only an ironical approval of his hunting ; so the Friar is commended for loving a barmaid better than a leper : the Doctor loves gold because it has medicinal ...
... Prioress escapes with only a fling at her airs and graces ; the Monk provokes only an ironical approval of his hunting ; so the Friar is commended for loving a barmaid better than a leper : the Doctor loves gold because it has medicinal ...
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... Prioress : the choice and the responsibility were his alone . It is , however , fair to say that such work is small in amount , and to the average reader a negligible quantity . The closer student will condemn this portion of his work ...
... Prioress : the choice and the responsibility were his alone . It is , however , fair to say that such work is small in amount , and to the average reader a negligible quantity . The closer student will condemn this portion of his work ...
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... Prioress's " prestes thre " ( 1. 164 ) , the pilgrim count up to thirty - one , which is inconsistent with the " Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye " of 1. 24. Only one of these priests appears as a story - teller , s that Chaucer may ...
... Prioress's " prestes thre " ( 1. 164 ) , the pilgrim count up to thirty - one , which is inconsistent with the " Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye " of 1. 24. Only one of these priests appears as a story - teller , s that Chaucer may ...
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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.