The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... hadde his berd been shake . " 1 Yet what a sea - picture there is in this simple state- I 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 ...
... hadde his berd been shake . " 1 Yet what a sea - picture there is in this simple state- I 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 ...
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... hadde songe , His eyen twynkled in his heed aryght As doon the sterres in the frosty nyght . ” 1 We have seen the snap of his eye and know why every body liked him , and a poor widow would give the fel low her last farthing . Arcite has ...
... hadde songe , His eyen twynkled in his heed aryght As doon the sterres in the frosty nyght . ” 1 We have seen the snap of his eye and know why every body liked him , and a poor widow would give the fel low her last farthing . Arcite has ...
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... hadde or hadd ' , were or wer ' , wolde or wold ' , sholde or shold ' , all ' or rarely ( except in rime ) allė . III . CONSONANTS . Consonants may be pronounced as in modern English , except that r should be strongly trilled , and h ...
... hadde or hadd ' , were or wer ' , wolde or wold ' , sholde or shold ' , all ' or rarely ( except in rime ) allė . III . CONSONANTS . Consonants may be pronounced as in modern English , except that r should be strongly trilled , and h ...
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... hadde hir pleyķnge . " Knight's Tale , 1. 203 . ( c ) As in modern verse , final syllables containing an or rare are readily slurred . Thus : heaven o heav'n , ever or ev'r , evil or ev'l , lytel or lyt'l , et Words ending in -we also ...
... hadde hir pleyķnge . " Knight's Tale , 1. 203 . ( c ) As in modern verse , final syllables containing an or rare are readily slurred . Thus : heaven o heav'n , ever or ev'r , evil or ev'l , lytel or lyt'l , et Words ending in -we also ...
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... hadde I spoken with hem everichon , That I was of hir felawshipe anon , And made forward erly for to ryse , To take our wey , ther as I yow devyse . 7. yonge , because still near the beginning of its course , which in Chaucer's time was ...
... hadde I spoken with hem everichon , That I was of hir felawshipe anon , And made forward erly for to ryse , To take our wey , ther as I yow devyse . 7. yonge , because still near the beginning of its course , which in Chaucer's time was ...
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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.
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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.