The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... rest containing chiefly the editor's opinions about Chaucer- should be let severely alone until the student , through care- ful reading of the texts , knows something at first hand about the poet , and so has gained an opinion of his ...
... rest containing chiefly the editor's opinions about Chaucer- should be let severely alone until the student , through care- ful reading of the texts , knows something at first hand about the poet , and so has gained an opinion of his ...
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... rest only upon inference ; and scholars 1 In this section I have made no attempt to enumerate the poet's minor works . Such information is readily accessible : - differ widely in their views of his chronology . This. INTRODUCTION ix ...
... rest only upon inference ; and scholars 1 In this section I have made no attempt to enumerate the poet's minor works . Such information is readily accessible : - differ widely in their views of his chronology . This. INTRODUCTION ix ...
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... rest is Chaucer's own . The story came to the Eng- lish poet as follows : Chriseyde remains in Troy as a hostage . Prince Troilus , hitherto a scoffer at love , falls desperately in love with her , and through the aid of Pandarus , her ...
... rest is Chaucer's own . The story came to the Eng- lish poet as follows : Chriseyde remains in Troy as a hostage . Prince Troilus , hitherto a scoffer at love , falls desperately in love with her , and through the aid of Pandarus , her ...
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... rest upon a proud consciousness of his own worth . Leaving the Temple of Fame the poet enters the House of Rumor , whither all words spoken on earth . fly , and the poem breaks off abruptly just as a mar of greet auctorite " is about to ...
... rest upon a proud consciousness of his own worth . Leaving the Temple of Fame the poet enters the House of Rumor , whither all words spoken on earth . fly , and the poem breaks off abruptly just as a mar of greet auctorite " is about to ...
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... rest is description of his " easy " han- dling of a wine cargo , of his piratical traits , and of his seamanship , except for the single line , — " With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake . " 1 Yet what a sea - picture there is in ...
... rest is description of his " easy " han- dling of a wine cargo , of his piratical traits , and of his seamanship , except for the single line , — " With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake . " 1 Yet what a sea - picture there is in ...
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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.