The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... true for Constance ; it is pro- bably wrong for Griseldis ( see Mod . Lang . Notes , xii . 15f . ) . I feel that Chaucer in the mood of the " retractions " ( see p . XXXV . ) was capable of writing the Parson's Tale ; it is hard to see ...
... true for Constance ; it is pro- bably wrong for Griseldis ( see Mod . Lang . Notes , xii . 15f . ) . I feel that Chaucer in the mood of the " retractions " ( see p . XXXV . ) was capable of writing the Parson's Tale ; it is hard to see ...
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... true lover reluctantly , only to throw herself wantonly into the arms of a false one , - that is the problem of the poem for Chaucer ; and he works it out with far keener analysis and with much greater sympathy than Boccaccio bestowed ...
... true lover reluctantly , only to throw herself wantonly into the arms of a false one , - that is the problem of the poem for Chaucer ; and he works it out with far keener analysis and with much greater sympathy than Boccaccio bestowed ...
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... true ear and steady eye can properly report . " lord ! this hous in alle tymes Was full of shipmen and pilgrymes , With scrippes bret - ful of lesynges , Entremedled with tidynges , And eek alone by hemselve . O , many a thousand tymes ...
... true ear and steady eye can properly report . " lord ! this hous in alle tymes Was full of shipmen and pilgrymes , With scrippes bret - ful of lesynges , Entremedled with tidynges , And eek alone by hemselve . O , many a thousand tymes ...
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... true subject and inspiration of his poetry . With this training and this achievement , one might suppose that Chaucer the thinker , and Chaucer the poet , had passed the time for new beginnings ; but if there is anything more ...
... true subject and inspiration of his poetry . With this training and this achievement , one might suppose that Chaucer the thinker , and Chaucer the poet , had passed the time for new beginnings ; but if there is anything more ...
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... " yeer by yeer " a " glorious legende " in the honor of women true in jove , and to the dispraise of faithless men . When nished , he shall hand it to the queen of — The god of Love , half rallying Chaucer that. INTRODUCTION ...
... " yeer by yeer " a " glorious legende " in the honor of women true in jove , and to the dispraise of faithless men . When nished , he shall hand it to the queen of — The god of Love , half rallying Chaucer that. INTRODUCTION ...
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