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... and at the famous joustings subsequently held at London in honour of the event . d Life of Chaucer by Sir H. Nicolas ; see Chaucer , ed . Morris , i . 4 . We have no means of ascertaining how he spent the LIFE OF CHAUCER . vii.
... and at the famous joustings subsequently held at London in honour of the event . d Life of Chaucer by Sir H. Nicolas ; see Chaucer , ed . Morris , i . 4 . We have no means of ascertaining how he spent the LIFE OF CHAUCER . vii.
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Geoffrey Chaucer Richard Morris. We have no means of ascertaining how he spent the next six years of his life , except from hints in our official records and the poet's own works . In 1367 the first notice of the poet occurs on the Issue ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Richard Morris. We have no means of ascertaining how he spent the next six years of his life , except from hints in our official records and the poet's own works . In 1367 the first notice of the poet occurs on the Issue ...
Page xxiv
... means proves a want of power of original conception or of artistic skill in the author . ' This is a point of ... mean that there had previously existed in modern Europe nothing like histrionic representation of real or imaginary events ...
... means proves a want of power of original conception or of artistic skill in the author . ' This is a point of ... mean that there had previously existed in modern Europe nothing like histrionic representation of real or imaginary events ...
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... means free from clerical errors . It was afterwards revised throughout by a careful collation with the Ellesmere , Hengwrt , and Corpus MSS . printed in Dr. Furnivall's Six - Text edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales h . The Cambridge ...
... means free from clerical errors . It was afterwards revised throughout by a careful collation with the Ellesmere , Hengwrt , and Corpus MSS . printed in Dr. Furnivall's Six - Text edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales h . The Cambridge ...
Page 128
... means what it says , viz . " his half - course , " and not , as Tyrwhitt unfortunately supposed , " half his course . " The results of the two explanations are quite different . Taking Chaucer's own expression as it stands , he tells us ...
... means what it says , viz . " his half - course , " and not , as Tyrwhitt unfortunately supposed , " half his course . " The results of the two explanations are quite different . Taking Chaucer's own expression as it stands , he tells us ...
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Page 2 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.
Page 11 - This worthy man ful wel his wit bisette; Ther wiste no wight that he was in dette, 280 So estatly was he of his governaunce, With his bargaynes, and with his chevisaunce.
Page 12 - Ther was also, ful riche of excellence. Discreet he was and of greet reverence — He semed swich, his wordes weren so wise.
Page 8 - A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. His heed was balled, that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he had been anoint.
Page 27 - Greet chere made our hoste us everichon, And to the soper sette he us anon ; And served us with vitaille at the beste. Strong was the wyn, and wel to drynke us leste. A semely man our hoste was withalle For to been a marshal in an halle ; A large man he was with eyen stepe...
Page 126 - Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees, And necligent, and truste on flaterye. But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee ~, good men. 620 For seint Paul seith, that al that writen is, (4631) To our doctryne it is y-write, y-wis. Taketh the fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille.
Page 18 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte ; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte...
Page 2 - Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, 40 And eek in what array that they were inne; And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.
Page 21 - Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men?
Page 12 - And every statut coude he pleyn by rote. He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote Girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale; Of his array telle I no lenger tale.