The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Nature , etc. 132. Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum , etc. 133. Schurz's Abraham Lincoln . 134. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . 135. Chaucer's Prologue . 136. Chaucer's The Knight's Tale , etc. 137. Bryant's Iliad . Bks . I , VI , XXII ...
... Nature , etc. 132. Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum , etc. 133. Schurz's Abraham Lincoln . 134. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . 135. Chaucer's Prologue . 136. Chaucer's The Knight's Tale , etc. 137. Bryant's Iliad . Bks . I , VI , XXII ...
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... nature . Accordingly , we divide his literary life into three periods , the French , Italian , and English . The French period ( be- fore 1373 ) . Chaucer began by imitating the French poems in favor at the English court . These poems ...
... nature . Accordingly , we divide his literary life into three periods , the French , Italian , and English . The French period ( be- fore 1373 ) . Chaucer began by imitating the French poems in favor at the English court . These poems ...
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... nature of fortune and proves that her favors are uncertain and unsatis- factory . Book III . proves that God is the summum bonum , and that , God being all powerful , evil can exist only in appearance . Book IV . treats of the mystery ...
... nature of fortune and proves that her favors are uncertain and unsatis- factory . Book III . proves that God is the summum bonum , and that , God being all powerful , evil can exist only in appearance . Book IV . treats of the mystery ...
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... nature of the pleaders , and finally the birds gallantly leave the choice to 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 ...
... nature of the pleaders , and finally the birds gallantly leave the choice to 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 ...
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... natural ques tion , -- " Artow come hider to han fame ? " ( 1. 482 ) and here with a fine pride Chaucer retorts . - 6 . Nay forsothe , frend ! " quod I ; I cam nogt hider , graunt mercy , For no swich cause , by my heed : Sufficeth me ...
... natural ques tion , -- " Artow come hider to han fame ? " ( 1. 482 ) and here with a fine pride Chaucer retorts . - 6 . Nay forsothe , frend ! " quod I ; I cam nogt hider , graunt mercy , For no swich cause , by my heed : Sufficeth me ...
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