The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Ride , etc. 64-66 . Lambs ' Tales from Shakespeare . 67. Shakespeare's Jul ' is Cæsar . 68. Goldsmith's Deserted Village , etc. 69. Hawthorne's The Old Manse , etc. 70 , 71. Selection from Whittier's Child Life . 72. Milton's Minor ...
... Ride , etc. 64-66 . Lambs ' Tales from Shakespeare . 67. Shakespeare's Jul ' is Cæsar . 68. Goldsmith's Deserted Village , etc. 69. Hawthorne's The Old Manse , etc. 70 , 71. Selection from Whittier's Child Life . 72. Milton's Minor ...
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... rides by preference near so thoroughly respectable a 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 ...
... rides by preference near so thoroughly respectable a 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 ...
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... rides last of all , that he may se and not be seen , while the only pleasant touch in hi portrait is the background , a tidy farm house shadowe with " grene trees . " The Somnour who rides in thi group is hideous to the eye as to the ...
... rides last of all , that he may se and not be seen , while the only pleasant touch in hi portrait is the background , a tidy farm house shadowe with " grene trees . " The Somnour who rides in thi group is hideous to the eye as to the ...
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... ride . In the pilgrimage itself we shall come to know the host better , and recognize his almost ideal capacity for his calling . He shows already a certain tact in selecting the Knight , Prioress , and Clerk to begin the story ...
... ride . In the pilgrimage itself we shall come to know the host better , and recognize his almost ideal capacity for his calling . He shows already a certain tact in selecting the Knight , Prioress , and Clerk to begin the story ...
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... rides in triumph toward Athens , certain Theban women , bereft of hus- bands and lovers through the cruelty of the tyrant Creon , be- seech the conqueror for ven- geance and for relief . Teseo takes up their cause , slays Cre- on ...
... rides in triumph toward Athens , certain Theban women , bereft of hus- bands and lovers through the cruelty of the tyrant Creon , be- seech the conqueror for ven- geance and for relief . Teseo takes up their cause , slays Cre- on ...
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