The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... persons , deprived Richard II . of all power . Chaucer , as a partisan of the king and of the absent John of Gaunt , lost both his offices ; and the year that had seen him in lucra- tive employment and in honored political position left ...
... persons , deprived Richard II . of all power . Chaucer , as a partisan of the king and of the absent John of Gaunt , lost both his offices ; and the year that had seen him in lucra- tive employment and in honored political position left ...
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... person as the Knight , while she surely looks askance at the ribald Friar who rides close behind her . It would be useless to call the roll of the Canter- bury pilgrimage . Cast rather a glance along the line and rest content with what ...
... person as the Knight , while she surely looks askance at the ribald Friar who rides close behind her . It would be useless to call the roll of the Canter- bury pilgrimage . Cast rather a glance along the line and rest content with what ...
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... persons who act and feel . Emily is scarcely more to us than a radiant vision against a background of rose - trees ... person than , for instance , our friend Chaunte- cleer the cock . It is this lack of reality in the characters that ...
... persons who act and feel . Emily is scarcely more to us than a radiant vision against a background of rose - trees ... person than , for instance , our friend Chaunte- cleer the cock . It is this lack of reality in the characters that ...
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... person in the drama . We have shown that this tale of a cock shows no small study of the married state ; we refuse absolutely to draw the " moralitee " which the Nun's Priest chose to leave to private interpretation . It is interest ...
... person in the drama . We have shown that this tale of a cock shows no small study of the married state ; we refuse absolutely to draw the " moralitee " which the Nun's Priest chose to leave to private interpretation . It is interest ...
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... person uses amor in the biblical sense of * charity ( revised version " love " ) , 1 Cor . 13 , but Chaucer surely relished the ambiguity of her motto . 99 Another NONNE with hir hadde she , That was hir THE PROLOGUE ,
... person uses amor in the biblical sense of * charity ( revised version " love " ) , 1 Cor . 13 , but Chaucer surely relished the ambiguity of her motto . 99 Another NONNE with hir hadde she , That was hir THE PROLOGUE ,
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