The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES TN WILLIAMS COLLEGE Tout bien Ghe Riverside Press BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Bregg Lambrinne HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 050X120 COPYRIGHT , 1899 , BY ...
... PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES TN WILLIAMS COLLEGE Tout bien Ghe Riverside Press BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Bregg Lambrinne HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 050X120 COPYRIGHT , 1899 , BY ...
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... Professor Kittredge's scholarly " Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus , " which has helped me through many a dark place in Chaucerian usage . My book has gained much from the generous criti- tism of friends , -Professor ...
... Professor Kittredge's scholarly " Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus , " which has helped me through many a dark place in Chaucerian usage . My book has gained much from the generous criti- tism of friends , -Professor ...
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... Professor Skeat's edition , and the same material reduced to narrative form in the Introduction of the " Globe " Chaucer or in Professor Lounsbury's Studies , vol . i . In all cases he should make the following corrections : ( a ) Under ...
... Professor Skeat's edition , and the same material reduced to narrative form in the Introduction of the " Globe " Chaucer or in Professor Lounsbury's Studies , vol . i . In all cases he should make the following corrections : ( a ) Under ...
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... Professor Skeat as A and B. B is the version written to be read before the court in 1385 , A a later revised version made after the queen's death in 1394 , with the omission and alteration of matter personal to her . The chronology of ...
... Professor Skeat as A and B. B is the version written to be read before the court in 1385 , A a later revised version made after the queen's death in 1394 , with the omission and alteration of matter personal to her . The chronology of ...
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... Professor Skeat , at the Clarendon Press , were long the great repository of Chaucerian information , and , if they have been in part super- seded , it is by Professor Skeat himself in the monu- mental " Oxford Chaucer . " They are ...
... Professor Skeat , at the Clarendon Press , were long the great repository of Chaucerian information , and , if they have been in part super- seded , it is by Professor Skeat himself in the monu- mental " Oxford Chaucer . " They are ...
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The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Frank Jewett Mather,Geoffrey Chaucer No preview available - 2016 |
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