The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... called him master . But he had only made a stage toward his burying - place , for he died October 25 , 1400 , aged some sixty years , and was buried in the north tran- sept of Westminster Abbey - first of the poets in the " Poet's ...
... called him master . But he had only made a stage toward his burying - place , for he died October 25 , 1400 , aged some sixty years , and was buried in the north tran- sept of Westminster Abbey - first of the poets in the " Poet's ...
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... called a translation of that poem . Of its 8232 lines , about a third are translated or closely imitated from Boccaccio : the rest is Chaucer's own . The story came to the Eng- lish poet as follows : Chriseyde remains in Troy as a ...
... called a translation of that poem . Of its 8232 lines , about a third are translated or closely imitated from Boccaccio : the rest is Chaucer's own . The story came to the Eng- lish poet as follows : Chriseyde remains in Troy as a ...
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... set about rendering the whole plot of Boccaccio's poem into English.2 Palamon 1 I cite in the notes and elsewhere the edition of Moutier , Firenze , 1831 . C and Arcite , 1 as Chaucer himself called his new. THE KNIGHT'S TALE Ixi ...
... set about rendering the whole plot of Boccaccio's poem into English.2 Palamon 1 I cite in the notes and elsewhere the edition of Moutier , Firenze , 1831 . C and Arcite , 1 as Chaucer himself called his new. THE KNIGHT'S TALE Ixi ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. and Arcite , 1 as Chaucer himself called his new poem is essentially an abstract of Boccaccio's epic , but it far from being merely that . The nature of the con densation and the character of the ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. and Arcite , 1 as Chaucer himself called his new poem is essentially an abstract of Boccaccio's epic , but it far from being merely that . The nature of the con densation and the character of the ...
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... called Meredithian , a two - edged compliment . — Vanity is , of course , the cock's foible . He has breathed the air of flattery and acquired its habit . His stupidity lies on this side only . And if he swal- lows the fox's bait ...
... called Meredithian , a two - edged compliment . — Vanity is , of course , the cock's foible . He has breathed the air of flattery and acquired its habit . His stupidity lies on this side only . And if he swal- lows the fox's bait ...
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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?
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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.