Chaucer's Canterbury PilgrimageWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 283 pages |
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... young folks and ordinary readers , in the hope that by means of it they may be led of their own accord to go to " the Poet of the Dawn , " " the Well of Eng- lish undefiled , " and by their study of the riches of the Canterbury Tales ...
... young folks and ordinary readers , in the hope that by means of it they may be led of their own accord to go to " the Poet of the Dawn , " " the Well of Eng- lish undefiled , " and by their study of the riches of the Canterbury Tales ...
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... young folks so much encumbered with unnecessary " notes , " drawn up for examination purposes , and often more difficult to understand than the text itself , that the poem is regarded by them as a task , and thrown aside at the earliest ...
... young folks so much encumbered with unnecessary " notes , " drawn up for examination purposes , and often more difficult to understand than the text itself , that the poem is regarded by them as a task , and thrown aside at the earliest ...
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... young people ; but those who can under- stand him find very little indeed to be regretted in Chaucer's poetry . He was evidently a man whose heart's delight was in all that is " true , and honest , and lovely , and of good report ...
... young people ; but those who can under- stand him find very little indeed to be regretted in Chaucer's poetry . He was evidently a man whose heart's delight was in all that is " true , and honest , and lovely , and of good report ...
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... yet he is somewhat feeble , has passed through the first month of his annual round , so that the young lambs are frisking in the meads , 1 The yongé sonne . the sap is rising in every stalk , making the. PARAPHRASE OF THE PROLOGUE .
... yet he is somewhat feeble , has passed through the first month of his annual round , so that the young lambs are frisking in the meads , 1 The yongé sonne . the sap is rising in every stalk , making the. PARAPHRASE OF THE PROLOGUE .
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... young SQUIRE , a worthy son of so noble a sire . He was tall and handsome , well proportioned and erect in bearing , strong in limb , and vigorous in movement . He was in his twentieth year , the age when healthy 1 In the Greeté see At ...
... young SQUIRE , a worthy son of so noble a sire . He was tall and handsome , well proportioned and erect in bearing , strong in limb , and vigorous in movement . He was in his twentieth year , the age when healthy 1 In the Greeté see At ...
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