The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... fair style " he had learned from Virgil ; Petrarch , now nearing the a trait or two from , Le Paradys d'Amours of Froissart ( see Kittredge , Englische Studien , xxvi , 321ff . ) . Add to these , the authors of the Roman de la Rose ...
... fair style " he had learned from Virgil ; Petrarch , now nearing the a trait or two from , Le Paradys d'Amours of Froissart ( see Kittredge , Englische Studien , xxvi , 321ff . ) . Add to these , the authors of the Roman de la Rose ...
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... 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 , or hold it justified , according to his opinion of the real- istic doctrine ...
... 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 , or hold it justified , according to his opinion of the real- istic doctrine ...
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... fair sister Emilia . II . 972 11. As Teseo rides in triumph toward Athens , certain Theban women , bereft of hus- bands and lovers through the cruelty of the tyrant Creon , be- seech the conqueror for ven- geance and for relief . Teseo ...
... fair sister Emilia . II . 972 11. As Teseo rides in triumph toward Athens , certain Theban women , bereft of hus- bands and lovers through the cruelty of the tyrant Creon , be- seech the conqueror for ven- geance and for relief . Teseo ...
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... fair friendship which had hitherto made the pris of the two lads sweet with its daily offices , thoug that friendship is saved at last ? " It is the re - knitti of this friendship in the face of death , and the delica scruple of Palamon ...
... fair friendship which had hitherto made the pris of the two lads sweet with its daily offices , thoug that friendship is saved at last ? " It is the re - knitti of this friendship in the face of death , and the delica scruple of Palamon ...
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... fair forheed , - 15 It was almost a spanne brood , I trowe ; For , hardily , she was nat undergrowe . Ful fetys was hir cloke , as I was war . Of smal coral aboute hir arm she bar A peire of bedes , gauded al with grene ; 160 And theron ...
... fair forheed , - 15 It was almost a spanne brood , I trowe ; For , hardily , she was nat undergrowe . Ful fetys was hir cloke , as I was war . Of smal coral aboute hir arm she bar A peire of bedes , gauded al with grene ; 160 And theron ...
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