The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... hold his own with mischievous fellow - pages . — now as 3 I have entered here only what seemed to me the important and interesting events of Chaucer's life . The reader will find the complete annals , drawn from official records , in ...
... hold his own with mischievous fellow - pages . — now as 3 I have entered here only what seemed to me the important and interesting events of Chaucer's life . The reader will find the complete annals , drawn from official records , in ...
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... Hold the hye wey , and lat thy gost thee lede , And trouthe shall delivere , it is no drede . " If the last decade of Chaucer's life had often pro duced work of this quality , we should willingly com pare it to the serene and wise last ...
... Hold the hye wey , and lat thy gost thee lede , And trouthe shall delivere , it is no drede . " If the last decade of Chaucer's life had often pro duced work of this quality , we should willingly com pare it to the serene and wise last ...
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... hold the rein on the Miller's coarser fellows Many of thann quite redeemed by the brilliancy and humor of the telling. Consequently he lets the Miller tell on freely his master of those who tell In olden times the Franch. INTRODUCTION ...
... hold the rein on the Miller's coarser fellows Many of thann quite redeemed by the brilliancy and humor of the telling. Consequently he lets the Miller tell on freely his master of those who tell In olden times the Franch. INTRODUCTION ...
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... hold it justified , according to his opinion of the real- istic doctrine ; while those who have experienced some of life's compromises will be rather tolerant to ward one whose " gipoun , " unlike that of the Knight , bears stains other ...
... hold it justified , according to his opinion of the real- istic doctrine ; while those who have experienced some of life's compromises will be rather tolerant to ward one whose " gipoun , " unlike that of the Knight , bears stains other ...
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... holds ou attention . All bones and wrinkles , the furtive look i his eye curiously belied by the flash that tells of temper badly controlled , you feel that he is as dange : ous as he is shifty , and you know not whether to pit most the ...
... holds ou attention . All bones and wrinkles , the furtive look i his eye curiously belied by the flash that tells of temper badly controlled , you feel that he is as dange : ous as he is shifty , and you know not whether to pit most the ...
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The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Frank Jewett Mather,Geoffrey Chaucer No preview available - 2016 |
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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.