The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... humorous beg- ging by doubling the poet's former pension of twenty marks and confirming the grant of 1394 . On Christmas eve of this year Chaucer took a long We may lease of a house behind Westminster Abbey . imagine him planning for a ...
... humorous beg- ging by doubling the poet's former pension of twenty marks and confirming the grant of 1394 . On Christmas eve of this year Chaucer took a long We may lease of a house behind Westminster Abbey . imagine him planning for a ...
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... humorous villain of the piece . His cheerful cyni cism and inexhaustible loquacity serve as an admirable foil and relief to the tragic passions of the lovers Troilus and Chriseyde . Chaucer has greatly enlarged and deepened the scope of ...
... humorous villain of the piece . His cheerful cyni cism and inexhaustible loquacity serve as an admirable foil and relief to the tragic passions of the lovers Troilus and Chriseyde . Chaucer has greatly enlarged and deepened the scope of ...
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... humor that is to become the very mark of Chaucer's genius . — The last work of the Italian period is the Hous oj Fame . In it Chaucer returns to the " light and lewd ' ( simple ) four - stressed couplet of his early period , and again ...
... humor that is to become the very mark of Chaucer's genius . — The last work of the Italian period is the Hous oj Fame . In it Chaucer returns to the " light and lewd ' ( simple ) four - stressed couplet of his early period , and again ...
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... humor to the brilliancy and wit of The Rape of the Lock . It is equally a classic of occasional poetry . The Legende itself was to have consisted of twenty lives of good women , beginning with Cleopatra and ending with Alcestis ...
... humor to the brilliancy and wit of The Rape of the Lock . It is equally a classic of occasional poetry . The Legende itself was to have consisted of twenty lives of good women , beginning with Cleopatra and ending with Alcestis ...
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... humor comes out in the Envoy to Scogan , written some- where after 1391. Chaucer now writes but little , as these lines tell us : " Ne thynke I never of sleep to wake my muse , That rusteth in my shethe stille in pees ; While I was yong ...
... humor comes out in the Envoy to Scogan , written some- where after 1391. Chaucer now writes but little , as these lines tell us : " Ne thynke I never of sleep to wake my muse , That rusteth in my shethe stille in pees ; While I was yong ...
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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?
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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.