The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... short lyrical poems , " And many an ympne [ hymn ] for your halydayes , That highten balades , roundels , virelayes , " ( Leg . 422 ) the loss of which is deeply to be regretted.2 — 1 The charming English version of Le Roman de la Rose ...
... short lyrical poems , " And many an ympne [ hymn ] for your halydayes , That highten balades , roundels , virelayes , " ( Leg . 422 ) the loss of which is deeply to be regretted.2 — 1 The charming English version of Le Roman de la Rose ...
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... short visit to Italy in 1378 , I fancy that , like most travellers , he did the things he regretted not having done the first time . Petrarch and Boccaccio were now dead , but their fame had only grown ; and when Chaucer recrossed the ...
... short visit to Italy in 1378 , I fancy that , like most travellers , he did the things he regretted not having done the first time . Petrarch and Boccaccio were now dead , but their fame had only grown ; and when Chaucer recrossed the ...
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... short duration , for in a general exchange of prisoners she returns to her father , Chalcas , in the Greek camp . There , under the seductions of a new lover , Diomed . she quickly forgets Troilus and her vows of constancy . Troilus ...
... short duration , for in a general exchange of prisoners she returns to her father , Chalcas , in the Greek camp . There , under the seductions of a new lover , Diomed . she quickly forgets Troilus and her vows of constancy . Troilus ...
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... short narrative poems , a literary form that reached with him at a single step its perfection . — The first work of this new realistic period is inter- esting in two respects , in the prologue of the Le gende of Good Women Chaucer ...
... short narrative poems , a literary form that reached with him at a single step its perfection . — The first work of this new realistic period is inter- esting in two respects , in the prologue of the Le gende of Good Women Chaucer ...
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... short narrative , and it was in this work that he became master of the form . The poorest legends compare favorably with the St. Cecile written some twelve years earlier , and the best , such as Cleopatra , Thisbe , and Dido , fall ...
... short narrative , and it was in this work that he became master of the form . The poorest legends compare favorably with the St. Cecile written some twelve years earlier , and the best , such as Cleopatra , Thisbe , and Dido , fall ...
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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?
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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.