The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... free to use elsewhere all matter in its origi nal that he had left untranslated or rendered very freely . So he fits into the Parlement a description of the Tamula ― poet tells us that he had this vision the. INTRODUCTION XIX ...
... free to use elsewhere all matter in its origi nal that he had left untranslated or rendered very freely . So he fits into the Parlement a description of the Tamula ― poet tells us that he had this vision the. INTRODUCTION XIX ...
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... death in 1394 , with the omission and alteration of matter personal to her . The chronology of the versions was definitely fixed by Ten Brink , Englische St. xvii , 13 ; xvi " Heel and honour To trouthe of womanhede ,. INTRODUCTION xxiii ..
... death in 1394 , with the omission and alteration of matter personal to her . The chronology of the versions was definitely fixed by Ten Brink , Englische St. xvii , 13 ; xvi " Heel and honour To trouthe of womanhede ,. INTRODUCTION xxiii ..
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... matters ; it is this mastery of his instrument that marks the great artist . From a very early time men have noted and admired the realism of Chaucer , and probably the time will never come when lovers fail to recognize something of ...
... matters ; it is this mastery of his instrument that marks the great artist . From a very early time men have noted and admired the realism of Chaucer , and probably the time will never come when lovers fail to recognize something of ...
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... matter sufficiently dubious . the reader of no too squeamish taste will find certain parts of these tales obtrusively nasty . Nor can he wholly excuse the poet on the ground of old - time freedom of expression ; for Chaucer knew ...
... matter sufficiently dubious . the reader of no too squeamish taste will find certain parts of these tales obtrusively nasty . Nor can he wholly excuse the poet on the ground of old - time freedom of expression ; for Chaucer knew ...
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... matters Chauce rian , and usually a competent guide to the literature of the subject . The Student's Chaucer , Macmillan and Co. , London and New York , 1895. This book is a convenient reprint in one volume of Professor Skeat's text . A ...
... matters Chauce rian , and usually a competent guide to the literature of the subject . The Student's Chaucer , Macmillan and Co. , London and New York , 1895. This book is a convenient reprint in one volume of Professor Skeat's text . A ...
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