The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... shal passen that men prose or ryme , Take every man his turne as for his tyme . " This same regret is expressed in different words in the envoy of the Compleynt of Venus . Much of this minor verse has real dignity , and none of it is ...
... shal passen that men prose or ryme , Take every man his turne as for his tyme . " This same regret is expressed in different words in the envoy of the Compleynt of Venus . Much of this minor verse has real dignity , and none of it is ...
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... shal choose rather to remember the long years of uncon scious preparation for great poetry , and to return to that marvellous dozen years following 1379 ; a time of full maturity and incessant productiveness , begin- ning with Troilus ...
... shal choose rather to remember the long years of uncon scious preparation for great poetry , and to return to that marvellous dozen years following 1379 ; a time of full maturity and incessant productiveness , begin- ning with Troilus ...
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... shal telle a tale after a man , He moot reherce as ny as ever he can , Everich a word , if it be in his charge , Al speke he never so rudeliche and large . " -30 99 cherles tale ; nor does he hold the rein on the Miller's coarser ...
... shal telle a tale after a man , He moot reherce as ny as ever he can , Everich a word , if it be in his charge , Al speke he never so rudeliche and large . " -30 99 cherles tale ; nor does he hold the rein on the Miller's coarser ...
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... shal been a Forget nat Palamon , the gentil mo 1. 193 I know of no instance wh Chaucer's fineness of nat appears more clearly than does in this passage . The apotheosis of Arcite rejected by Chaucer ( see 1951 , note ) . The description ...
... shal been a Forget nat Palamon , the gentil mo 1. 193 I know of no instance wh Chaucer's fineness of nat appears more clearly than does in this passage . The apotheosis of Arcite rejected by Chaucer ( see 1951 , note ) . The description ...
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... shal the world be served ? Lat Austyn have his swynk to hym reserved . Therfor he was a pricasour aright ; 190 Grehoundes he hadde , as swifte as fowel in flight ; Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust , for no cost ...
... shal the world be served ? Lat Austyn have his swynk to hym reserved . Therfor he was a pricasour aright ; 190 Grehoundes he hadde , as swifte as fowel in flight ; Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust , for no cost ...
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