The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... twenty marks for faithful service as a valet of the king's household . Greater responsibilities awaited him . From 1370 to 1386 we find him frequently employed on diplo- matic missions . Only two of these need detain us . From December ...
... twenty marks for faithful service as a valet of the king's household . Greater responsibilities awaited him . From 1370 to 1386 we find him frequently employed on diplo- matic missions . Only two of these need detain us . From December ...
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... twenty pounds a year for life , adding in 1398 to this yearly gift that of a tun of wine . Henry IV . , the son of Chaucer's old patron John of Gaunt , deposing Richard II . , came to the throne September 30 , 1399. The poet immediately ...
... twenty pounds a year for life , adding in 1398 to this yearly gift that of a tun of wine . Henry IV . , the son of Chaucer's old patron John of Gaunt , deposing Richard II . , came to the throne September 30 , 1399. The poet immediately ...
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... twenty lives of good women , beginning with Cleopatra and ending with Alcestis . Boccaccio's Latin work , De Claris Mulieribus , which in its turn was suggested by Ovid's Heroides , probably served as the modal f ... notable ...
... twenty lives of good women , beginning with Cleopatra and ending with Alcestis . Boccaccio's Latin work , De Claris Mulieribus , which in its turn was suggested by Ovid's Heroides , probably served as the modal f ... notable ...
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... twenty devil way the wynde him dryve , " 1 I cite the passage , which may well be compared with Chau ter's earlier - written account of a tournament , Knight's Tale , 11 1741 ff .: " Up goth the trumpe , and for to shout and shete , And ...
... twenty devil way the wynde him dryve , " 1 I cite the passage , which may well be compared with Chau ter's earlier - written account of a tournament , Knight's Tale , 11 1741 ff .: " Up goth the trumpe , and for to shout and shete , And ...
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... Twenty stories in which the woman should be true and the man faithless , there was little enough opportunity for variety in such a task . No wonder that Chaucer left it half done ! Yet the Legende remains one of his more important works ...
... Twenty stories in which the woman should be true and the man faithless , there was little enough opportunity for variety in such a task . No wonder that Chaucer left it half done ! Yet the Legende remains one of his more important works ...
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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?
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