The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Lady of the Lake . 54. Bryant's Thanatopsis , etc. 55. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice . 56. Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration . 57. Dickens's Christmas Carol . 58. Dickens's Cricket on the Hearth . 59. Verse and Prose for Beginners ...
... Lady of the Lake . 54. Bryant's Thanatopsis , etc. 55. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice . 56. Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration . 57. Dickens's Christmas Carol . 58. Dickens's Cricket on the Hearth . 59. Verse and Prose for Beginners ...
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... ladies of the chamber to the queen ; and we must think of him for ten years and more as leading the life of a hard- worked business man , returning nights to his home in chambers over Aldgate and to the solace of his old books . In ...
... ladies of the chamber to the queen ; and we must think of him for ten years and more as leading the life of a hard- worked business man , returning nights to his home in chambers over Aldgate and to the solace of his old books . In ...
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... lady's cruelty , he finds Pity dead and buried in his lady's heart , a very artificial conceit , but expressed with a sweetness of style that had not before appeared in English literature . - Many features of this French style appear in ...
... lady's cruelty , he finds Pity dead and buried in his lady's heart , a very artificial conceit , but expressed with a sweetness of style that had not before appeared in English literature . - Many features of this French style appear in ...
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... lady , giving her a year of grace , and suggesting that her choice can only fall upon the Royal Eagle . The whole is a graceful apologue of the courtship of the queen . King Richard had in fact two rivals , and the negotia tions for the ...
... lady , giving her a year of grace , and suggesting that her choice can only fall upon the Royal Eagle . The whole is a graceful apologue of the courtship of the queen . King Richard had in fact two rivals , and the negotia tions for the ...
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... ladies of the court hear Chaucer's closing warning solemnly read- " Be war , ye wymmen , of youre sotile fo ! Syns yet this day men may ensample se , And , as in love , trusteth no man but me , " we may imagine the laughter that would ...
... ladies of the court hear Chaucer's closing warning solemnly read- " Be war , ye wymmen , of youre sotile fo ! Syns yet this day men may ensample se , And , as in love , trusteth no man but me , " we may imagine the laughter that would ...
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