The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... write some of his best poetry . On May 8 , 1382 , he received the additional office of comptroller of the petty customs . In February , 1385 , relief came at last , and probably from Queen Anne , in the privilege of naming a permanent ...
... write some of his best poetry . On May 8 , 1382 , he received the additional office of comptroller of the petty customs . In February , 1385 , relief came at last , and probably from Queen Anne , in the privilege of naming a permanent ...
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... writing graceful verse ; in fact in this whole period he was on a side - track , and his real progress was to come only after retracing his steps , and making a fresh start . In the chaotic state of English litera- ture , it was ...
... writing graceful verse ; in fact in this whole period he was on a side - track , and his real progress was to come only after retracing his steps , and making a fresh start . In the chaotic state of English litera- ture , it was ...
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... writing the Parson's Tale ; it is hard to see why he should have written it as an independent work . 1 This poem , like many of the Italian period , is written in the beautiful seven - line stanza , or " rime royal , " borrowed appar ...
... writing the Parson's Tale ; it is hard to see why he should have written it as an independent work . 1 This poem , like many of the Italian period , is written in the beautiful seven - line stanza , or " rime royal , " borrowed appar ...
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... writes such a work , shows how little , admiring him heartily , the English poet really understood the great Florentine . — As we review the work of the seven years during which Chaucer followed Italian models , we must marvel at its ...
... writes such a work , shows how little , admiring him heartily , the English poet really understood the great Florentine . — As we review the work of the seven years during which Chaucer followed Italian models , we must marvel at its ...
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... writes for the last time , and with rare felicity , dream - poem ; in the Legende itself he presents his first collection of tales . If we may trust the testimony of his disciple Lydgate , the book was made " at the request of the quene ...
... writes for the last time , and with rare felicity , dream - poem ; in the Legende itself he presents his first collection of tales . If we may trust the testimony of his disciple Lydgate , the book was made " at the request of the quene ...
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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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