Chaucer's Canterbury PilgrimageWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 283 pages |
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... bound for Canterbury , and resolved to make the most of their holiday . The place was a well - appointed one ; the accommodation was ample and stately ; the viands were good ; and the host , Harry Bailly by name , did all he could to ...
... bound for Canterbury , and resolved to make the most of their holiday . The place was a well - appointed one ; the accommodation was ample and stately ; the viands were good ; and the host , Harry Bailly by name , did all he could to ...
Page 73
... bound manuscripts , which were far dearer to him than the ordinary pleasures of life are to other people . He inspired the greater number of us with the deepest respect for him ; we admired his unassuming demeanour , which was the sign ...
... bound manuscripts , which were far dearer to him than the ordinary pleasures of life are to other people . He inspired the greater number of us with the deepest respect for him ; we admired his unassuming demeanour , which was the sign ...
Page 82
... bound to her by the blissful bonds of matrimony ; so that she was well acquainted with the other sex ; while , in her earlier days , she had befooled so many swains , that 1 As brood as is a bokeler or a targe . 2 Sche was thanne out of ...
... bound to her by the blissful bonds of matrimony ; so that she was well acquainted with the other sex ; while , in her earlier days , she had befooled so many swains , that 1 As brood as is a bokeler or a targe . 2 Sche was thanne out of ...
Page 98
... bound for Canterbury : well , I assure you that I wish one and all a good journey , and I hope that the blissful martyr will grant to every one the desire of his heart . But , surely , instead of each riding silently and separately on ...
... bound for Canterbury : well , I assure you that I wish one and all a good journey , and I hope that the blissful martyr will grant to every one the desire of his heart . But , surely , instead of each riding silently and separately on ...
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... bound by the sickly sentimental ideas which were peculiar to the spu- rious chivalry of his day , and which insisted that every promise , once made , must be fulfilled , however foolish it might have been , for " Troth is the highest ...
... bound by the sickly sentimental ideas which were peculiar to the spu- rious chivalry of his day , and which insisted that every promise , once made , must be fulfilled , however foolish it might have been , for " Troth is the highest ...
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