Chaucer: A Bibliographical ManualMacmillan, 1908 - 579 pages |
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Page 37
... Story of Thebes in Latin , and that Lydgate translated it into English verse ; this he gets from Pits . Blount . De ... stories of his college edu- cation , his complicity in John of Northampton's plot , etc .; but in spite of this large ...
... Story of Thebes in Latin , and that Lydgate translated it into English verse ; this he gets from Pits . Blount . De ... stories of his college edu- cation , his complicity in John of Northampton's plot , etc .; but in spite of this large ...
Page 66
... story of Oedipus and Jocasta fills the first book of the Siege of Thebes . Stow , in 1561 , added to Thynne's list a mass of short poems , printed together in the latter portion of his volume . The only poem of length in this catalogue ...
... story of Oedipus and Jocasta fills the first book of the Siege of Thebes . Stow , in 1561 , added to Thynne's list a mass of short poems , printed together in the latter portion of his volume . The only poem of length in this catalogue ...
Page 75
... stories , viz . , the story of Virginia , of Con- stance , of Phoebus and the Crow , and of Florent ( cp . the Wife of Bath's Tale ) . The story of Ceix and Alcyone ( see Book of the Duchesse ) is also narrated by Gower , as is that of ...
... stories , viz . , the story of Virginia , of Con- stance , of Phoebus and the Crow , and of Florent ( cp . the Wife of Bath's Tale ) . The story of Ceix and Alcyone ( see Book of the Duchesse ) is also narrated by Gower , as is that of ...
Page 80
... story of Constance , used by Chaucer as the Man of Law's Tale ; extracts are printed Ch . Soc . Orig . and Anal ... stories in a framework , and that five of the CT stories occur also in Boccaccio . But for one of these , the tale of ...
... story of Constance , used by Chaucer as the Man of Law's Tale ; extracts are printed Ch . Soc . Orig . and Anal ... stories in a framework , and that five of the CT stories occur also in Boccaccio . But for one of these , the tale of ...
Page 82
... story and the invocation to the Virgin ( of the Prioress ' Tale ) , the usages of Dante by Chaucer appear in scattered lines and phrases , often of small interest . They might be classified , so far as our research has yet gone , into ...
... story and the invocation to the Virgin ( of the Prioress ' Tale ) , the usages of Dante by Chaucer appear in scattered lines and phrases , often of small interest . They might be classified , so far as our research has yet gone , into ...
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Page 56 - Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng craftily, Hath seyd hem in swich Englissh as he kan, Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another. For he hath toold of loveris up and doun Mo than Ovide made of mencioun, In hise Episteles that been ful olde; What sholde I tellen hem, syn they ben tolde?
Page 489 - He was short-sholdred, brood, a thikke knarre, Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, Or breke it, at a renning, with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade.
Page 467 - I confess, is not harmonious to us; but 'tis like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata: they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
Page 524 - XV. The Man of Law's, Shipman's, and Prioress's Tales, with Chaucer's own Tale of Sir Thopas, in 6 parallel Texts from the MSS above named, and 10 coloured drawings of Tellers of Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS.
Page 500 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
Page 536 - AD 1246 (the Latin source of the French original of Chaucer's Melibe), edited from the MSS, by Dr. Thor Sundby. Of the Second Series, the issue for 1874 is, 9. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part II.
Page 472 - Chaucer's time ended in e originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume that our ancestors first passed from the broader sound of a to the thinner sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute.
Page 525 - The Cronycle made by Chaucer,' both from MSS written by Shirley, Chaucer's contemporary. XXIV. A One-Text Print of Chaucer's Minor Poems, being the best Text from the Parallel-Text Edition, Part I, containing, I. The Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse, II.
Page 128 - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Compared with the former Editions, and many valuable MSS Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed; By John Urry, Student of Christ Church, Oxon.
Page 22 - It seemeth that both these learned men [Chaucer and Gower] were of the inner Temple: for not many yeeres since, Master Buckley did see a Record in the same house, where Geoffrey Chaucer was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscane fryer in Fleetstreete.