The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... ther dwelleth neither man nor best , With knotty , knarry , bareyn trees olde Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to biholde ; In which ther ran a rumbel in a swough , As though a storm sholde bresten every bough . " 1 How well the harsh and ...
... ther dwelleth neither man nor best , With knotty , knarry , bareyn trees olde Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to biholde ; In which ther ran a rumbel in a swough , As though a storm sholde bresten every bough . " 1 How well the harsh and ...
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... Ther maystow seen . . . Knyghtes , of retenue , and eek squyeres Nailynge the speres , and helmes bokelynge , Giggynge of sheeldes , with layneres lacynge ; Ther as need is , they weren nothyng ydel ; The fomy steedes on the golden ...
... Ther maystow seen . . . Knyghtes , of retenue , and eek squyeres Nailynge the speres , and helmes bokelynge , Giggynge of sheeldes , with layneres lacynge ; Ther as need is , they weren nothyng ydel ; The fomy steedes on the golden ...
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... Ther as this lord was kepere of the celle ; " 1 and the very whistling of the wind is in the second line with its thin " i " and " " sounds and its reso- nant " n's . " Or in the description of the Miller — е - " He was short ...
... Ther as this lord was kepere of the celle ; " 1 and the very whistling of the wind is in the second line with its thin " i " and " " sounds and its reso- nant " n's . " Or in the description of the Miller — е - " He was short ...
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... ther n ' as , And yet he semed bisier than he was . ' 998 You cannot forget that the Reeve is " sclendre " when you have seen his legs through Chaucer's homely simile , - " Ful longe were his legges and ful lene , Y - lyk a staf , ther ...
... ther n ' as , And yet he semed bisier than he was . ' 998 You cannot forget that the Reeve is " sclendre " when you have seen his legs through Chaucer's homely simile , - " Ful longe were his legges and ful lene , Y - lyk a staf , ther ...
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... must be judged , or better , enjoyed primarily , as the Let xlvi Chaucer had no need to claim a title that. master of those who tell In olden times the Franch " A Knýght ther wás , and that a worthy. INTRODUCTION xlv ...
... must be judged , or better , enjoyed primarily , as the Let xlvi Chaucer had no need to claim a title that. master of those who tell In olden times the Franch " A Knýght ther wás , and that a worthy. INTRODUCTION xlv ...
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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.