Chaucer's Canterbury PilgrimageWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 283 pages |
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... better acquainted with the poem as a whole ; although I know well that work of this nature must always be more or less unsatisfactory , and that the poet's quaintness , his skilful managet ment of minute details - in a word , the ...
... better acquainted with the poem as a whole ; although I know well that work of this nature must always be more or less unsatisfactory , and that the poet's quaintness , his skilful managet ment of minute details - in a word , the ...
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... better class who lived at Stratford - le - Bow in the east of London , which differed in many re- spects from the French of Paris , which she had no desire to learn . She was very anxious to be thought well skilled in all the habits ...
... better class who lived at Stratford - le - Bow in the east of London , which differed in many re- spects from the French of Paris , which she had no desire to learn . She was very anxious to be thought well skilled in all the habits ...
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... better judge of table dainties than he ; and certainly , as far as outward appear- ance went , he was an ornament 4 to his order . 2 In the company there was a merry begging FRIAR , who was by no means anxious about his dignity if it ...
... better judge of table dainties than he ; and certainly , as far as outward appear- ance went , he was an ornament 4 to his order . 2 In the company there was a merry begging FRIAR , who was by no means anxious about his dignity if it ...
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... better . He therefore drew in a large sum every year ; and , in fact , the amount of money he obtained by begging 3 was much greater than the income allowed him by the Church . Like the Monk , he was a thorough man of the world , though ...
... better . He therefore drew in a large sum every year ; and , in fact , the amount of money he obtained by begging 3 was much greater than the income allowed him by the Church . Like the Monk , he was a thorough man of the world , though ...
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... better known than his in that paradise of lawyers , the porch of Old Saint Paul's , where they are wont to congregate ; no assize court was complete without him , whether he was there in the ordinary course of business , or by special ...
... better known than his in that paradise of lawyers , the porch of Old Saint Paul's , where they are wont to congregate ; no assize court was complete without him , whether he was there in the ordinary course of business , or by special ...
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