The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... line stanza , or " rime royal , " borrowed appar ently from the French poet , Guillaume de Machault . The firs stanza will serve as a specimen . " The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen , That was the king Priamus son of Troye , In ...
... line stanza , or " rime royal , " borrowed appar ently from the French poet , Guillaume de Machault . The firs stanza will serve as a specimen . " The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen , That was the king Priamus son of Troye , In ...
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... lines , about a third are translated or closely imitated from Boccaccio : the rest is Chaucer's own . The story came to the Eng- lish poet as follows : Chriseyde remains in Troy as a hostage . Prince Troilus , hitherto a scoffer at love ...
... lines , about a third are translated or closely imitated from Boccaccio : the rest is Chaucer's own . The story came to the Eng- lish poet as follows : Chriseyde remains in Troy as a hostage . Prince Troilus , hitherto a scoffer at love ...
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... line stanza ; 1 but the proof for this ingenious theory has This theory is based upon the fact that fairly literal trans- iations in stanzas of portions of the Teseide are found in Anelida and Arcite , 11. 22-46 , Troilus , v . 1807-27 ...
... line stanza ; 1 but the proof for this ingenious theory has This theory is based upon the fact that fairly literal trans- iations in stanzas of portions of the Teseide are found in Anelida and Arcite , 11. 22-46 , Troilus , v . 1807-27 ...
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... 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 I put hir forth in prees ; But al shal passen that men prose or ryme , Take every man his turne as for his tyme ...
... 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 I put hir forth in prees ; But al shal passen that men prose or ryme , Take every man his turne as for his tyme ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. xxxiv eloquence ; in the following lines one will recogniz the didactic , and frankly so , yet genuinely poetic note which English literature shows oftener than any sinc Greece and Rome : - " That ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. xxxiv eloquence ; in the following lines one will recogniz the didactic , and frankly so , yet genuinely poetic note which English literature shows oftener than any sinc Greece and Rome : - " That ...
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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.