The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... poet , and so has gained an opinion of his own , or at least has earned the right to have one made for him . The text has been revised especially for this volume on the plan described in the Appendix . For notes and illustrations I am ...
... poet , and so has gained an opinion of his own , or at least has earned the right to have one made for him . The text has been revised especially for this volume on the plan described in the Appendix . For notes and illustrations I am ...
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... poet , like a practical man , com- muted for cash . More substantial preferment came to him June 8 , 1374 , in the appointment to the office of comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools , skins , and leather , for the port of ...
... poet , like a practical man , com- muted for cash . More substantial preferment came to him June 8 , 1374 , in the appointment to the office of comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools , skins , and leather , for the port of ...
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... poets who called him master . But he had only made a stage toward his burying - place , for he died October 25 , 1400 , aged some sixty years , and was buried in the north tran- sept of Westminster Abbey - first of the poets in the " Poet's ...
... poets who called him master . But he had only made a stage toward his burying - place , for he died October 25 , 1400 , aged some sixty years , and was buried in the north tran- sept of Westminster Abbey - first of the poets in the " Poet's ...
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... poet himself permits us , the growth of a great poet's mind and art . IT II CHAUCER'S LITERARY DEVELOPMENT It appears desirable to treat the order of Chaucer's works , a chapter which is based chiefly upon ingenious conjecture , apart ...
... poet himself permits us , the growth of a great poet's mind and art . IT II CHAUCER'S LITERARY DEVELOPMENT It appears desirable to treat the order of Chaucer's works , a chapter which is based chiefly upon ingenious conjecture , apart ...
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... poet complains that having appealed to Pity against his lady's cruelty , he finds Pity dead and buried in his lady's ... poets little except the. INTRODUCTION xi ...
... poet complains that having appealed to Pity against his lady's cruelty , he finds Pity dead and buried in his lady's ... poets little except the. INTRODUCTION xi ...
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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?
Page 1 - And sikerly she was of greet disport, And ful plesaunt, and amiable of port, And peyned hir to countrefete chere Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence.
Page 7 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
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.