Chaucer's Canterbury PilgrimageWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 283 pages |
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... portrait given at the commencement of this sketch , we have a faithful representation of his personal appearance . It was painted by the poet Occleve on the margin of his ' De Regimine Principio . ' He had the greatest reverence for ...
... portrait given at the commencement of this sketch , we have a faithful representation of his personal appearance . It was painted by the poet Occleve on the margin of his ' De Regimine Principio . ' He had the greatest reverence for ...
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... portraits , and types of the various divi- sions of middle - class society as it then existed . He was the first poet who presented a great work of this nature to the English people . Previous writers , living much apart from the world ...
... portraits , and types of the various divi- sions of middle - class society as it then existed . He was the first poet who presented a great work of this nature to the English people . Previous writers , living much apart from the world ...
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