Chaucer: A Bibliographical ManualMacmillan, 1908 - 579 pages |
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... adding this withall , That not the proudest , that hath written in any tongue whatsoeuer , in these pointes can carrie away the praise from him . Master Spenser in his first Eglogue of his Shepheardes Kalen- der , calleth him Titirus ...
... adding this withall , That not the proudest , that hath written in any tongue whatsoeuer , in these pointes can carrie away the praise from him . Master Spenser in his first Eglogue of his Shepheardes Kalen- der , calleth him Titirus ...
Page 35
... on Chaucer's death , after Brigham's epitaph is quoted , there is added : " About the ledge of whiche tombe were these verses , now cleane worne out . Si rogites quis eram , forsan te fama docebit . SPEGHT OF 1598 : OF 1602 35.
... on Chaucer's death , after Brigham's epitaph is quoted , there is added : " About the ledge of whiche tombe were these verses , now cleane worne out . Si rogites quis eram , forsan te fama docebit . SPEGHT OF 1598 : OF 1602 35.
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... added to the commendatory extracts , before Surigon's epitaph . In the mention of the men of later time who have praised Chaucer , the allusion to Thynne is expanded , " whose iudgement we are the rather to approue , for that he had ...
... added to the commendatory extracts , before Surigon's epitaph . In the mention of the men of later time who have praised Chaucer , the allusion to Thynne is expanded , " whose iudgement we are the rather to approue , for that he had ...
Page 37
... added , and Phillips ' remark about the Squire's Tale is repeated . To the statement that Brigham erected the tomb of Chaucer is added the fact that he buried his four - year old daughter near the grave on June 21 , 1557 , -which fact ...
... added , and Phillips ' remark about the Squire's Tale is repeated . To the statement that Brigham erected the tomb of Chaucer is added the fact that he buried his four - year old daughter near the grave on June 21 , 1557 , -which fact ...
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... added . But in Notes and Queries 1904 I : 28 Furnivall writes that he has found in MS Egerton 2642 the statement that " Hickeman " wrote the epitaph of Chaucer and got the tumulus decorated . And in Athen . 1850 II : 768 ( cited N. and ...
... added . But in Notes and Queries 1904 I : 28 Furnivall writes that he has found in MS Egerton 2642 the statement that " Hickeman " wrote the epitaph of Chaucer and got the tumulus decorated . And in Athen . 1850 II : 768 ( cited N. and ...
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Page 488 - As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Page 488 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 489 - Then shakes his powder'd coat, and barks for joy. Heedless of all his pranks, the sturdy churl Moves right toward the mark ; nor stops for aught But now and then with pressure of his thumb To adjust the fragrant charge of a short tube, That fumes beneath his nose : the trailing cloud Streams far behind him, scenting all the air.
Page 525 - XXIII. Odd Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I, containing 1. two MS fragments of ' The Parlament of Foules ; ' 2. the two differing versions of ' The Prologue to the Legende of Good Women,' arranged so as to show their differences ; 3.
Page 523 - Tale, of the Canterbury Tales, in 6 parallel Texts (from the 6 MSS named below), together with Tables, showing the Groups of the Tales, and their varying order in 38 MSS of the Tales, and in 5 old printed editions, and also Specimens from several MSS of the "Moveable Prologues...
Page 56 - Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng craftily, Hath seyd hem in swich Englissh as he kan, Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another. For he hath toold of loveris up and doun Mo than Ovide made of mencioun, In hise Episteles that been ful olde; What sholde I tellen hem, syn they ben tolde?
Page 467 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine...
Page 35 - Cresseid; of whom, truly, I know not whether to meruaile more, either that he in that mistie time could see so clearely, or that wee in this cleare age walke so stumblingly after him.
Page 536 - AD 1246 (the Latin source of the French original of Chaucer's Melibe), edited from the MSS, by Dr. Thor Sundby. Of the Second Series, the issue for 1874 is, 9. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part II.
Page 500 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death (Paradise Lost, ii. 621), and in Pope's: And ten low words oft creep in one dull line (Essay on Criticism, 1.