A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Part 1, Attempting to Show the True Order of the Tales, and the Days and Stages of the Pilgrimage |
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... land from England's legacy to it , the curse of slavery , could one who honoured him for it , who felt strongly how mean had been the feeling of England's upper and middle classes on the War , as contrasted with the nobleness of our ...
... land from England's legacy to it , the curse of slavery , could one who honoured him for it , who felt strongly how mean had been the feeling of England's upper and middle classes on the War , as contrasted with the nobleness of our ...
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... land in the Chaucer MS must be those of Henry Percy , 4th Earl of Northumberland , K. G. , and not those of Henry , 3rd Earl . In this shield , Percy quarters Poynings , Fitz Payn , and Bryan . Had they been the arms of Henry , 3rd Earl ...
... land in the Chaucer MS must be those of Henry Percy , 4th Earl of Northumberland , K. G. , and not those of Henry , 3rd Earl . In this shield , Percy quarters Poynings , Fitz Payn , and Bryan . Had they been the arms of Henry , 3rd Earl ...
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... Lands . read was streight ( 2 MSS ) . 1. 161. Corp. and Lansd . wrongly insert with . 1. 162. that in Harl . alone . Omitted by all the rest . 1. 170. ( 1. ) Elles . , Camb . gynglen , gyngelyn ( inf . ) . ( 2. ) Heng . and Harl ...
... Lands . read was streight ( 2 MSS ) . 1. 161. Corp. and Lansd . wrongly insert with . 1. 162. that in Harl . alone . Omitted by all the rest . 1. 170. ( 1. ) Elles . , Camb . gynglen , gyngelyn ( inf . ) . ( 2. ) Heng . and Harl ...
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... land us in April . Then this day fifty wekes ' means ' this day year , ' viz . on May 5 . " Now , in the year following ( supposed not a leap - year ) , the 5th of May would be Sunday . But this § 8. DATES OF EVENTS IN THE KNIGHT'S TALE ...
... land us in April . Then this day fifty wekes ' means ' this day year , ' viz . on May 5 . " Now , in the year following ( supposed not a leap - year ) , the 5th of May would be Sunday . But this § 8. DATES OF EVENTS IN THE KNIGHT'S TALE ...
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... land find a trace . We can only hope that when our early naval records come to be printed , shippes hoppesteres ' may appear in some of them , with an explanation . § 9. Intentions . The less said about these , the better , perhaps ...
... land find a trace . We can only hope that when our early naval records come to be printed , shippes hoppesteres ' may appear in some of them , with an explanation . § 9. Intentions . The less said about these , the better , perhaps ...
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Page 110 - Would that I Had but some portion of that mastery That from the rose-hung lanes of woody Kent Through these five hundred years such songs have sent To us, who, meshed within this smoky net Of unrejoicing labour, love them yet. And thou, O Master! — Yea, my Master still, Whatever feet have scaled Parnassus' hill, Since like thy measures, clear and sweet and strong, Thames...
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Page 111 - ... stream scarce fettered bore the bream along Unto the bastioned bridge, his only chain. O Master, pardon me, if yet in vain Thou art my Master, and I fail to bring Before men's eyes the image of the thing My heart is filled with : thou whose dreamy eyes Beheld the flush to Cressid's cheeks arise, 20 When Troilus rode up the praising street, As clearly as they saw thy townsmen meet Those who in vineyards of Poictou withstood The glittering horror of the steel-topped wood.