The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... queen ; and we must think of him for ten years and more as leading the life of a hard- worked business man , returning nights to his home in chambers over Aldgate and to the solace of his old books . In these years of a routine broken ...
... queen ; and we must think of him for ten years and more as leading the life of a hard- worked business man , returning nights to his home in chambers over Aldgate and to the solace of his old books . In these years of a routine broken ...
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... queen . King Richard had in fact two rivals , and the negotia tions for the match lasted a year . Chaucer has pre- fixed an abstract of the Somnium Scipionis of Cicero it was the book he was reading as he fell asleep and an elaborate ...
... queen . King Richard had in fact two rivals , and the negotia tions for the match lasted a year . Chaucer has pre- fixed an abstract of the Somnium Scipionis of Cicero it was the book he was reading as he fell asleep and an elaborate ...
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... queen's good offices the privilege of appointing a deputy , February , 1385 ; if so , the Le- gende , as an expression of gratitude , is likely to have been written the same spring . The prologue ( 11. 29 ff . ) tells us how Chaucer ...
... queen's good offices the privilege of appointing a deputy , February , 1385 ; if so , the Le- gende , as an expression of gratitude , is likely to have been written the same spring . The prologue ( 11. 29 ff . ) tells us how Chaucer ...
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... queen exacts of the erring poet reparation , not punish- ment ; and the god of Love gracefully consents . Chaucer here seeks to express his thanks and to make his excuse . The queen stops him ( 1. 475 ) : - " Lat be thyn arguynge , For ...
... queen exacts of the erring poet reparation , not punish- ment ; and the god of Love gracefully consents . Chaucer here seeks to express his thanks and to make his excuse . The queen stops him ( 1. 475 ) : - " Lat be thyn arguynge , For ...
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... Queen Anne was particularly graceful , for everybody knew that Alceste's praise was the queen's . The poem is a well - nigh perfect example of its arti ficial , if charming , class . Many will prefer its sweet- ness and quiet humor to ...
... Queen Anne was particularly graceful , for everybody knew that Alceste's praise was the queen's . The poem is a well - nigh perfect example of its arti ficial , if charming , class . Many will prefer its sweet- ness and quiet humor to ...
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The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Frank Jewett Mather,Geoffrey Chaucer No preview available - 2016 |
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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.