Canterbury Tales: The Prologue and Squire's TaleW.B. Clive, 1904 - 182 pages |
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... character has escaped him . All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other ; and not only in their ... characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity : their discourses are such as belong to their age ...
... character has escaped him . All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other ; and not only in their ... characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity : their discourses are such as belong to their age ...
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... character and manner of the man . We thus receive in the end such an exact idea of the men he is describing , that ... characters grow gradually before our eyes : while appearing to go at haphazard from one part to another , from some ...
... character and manner of the man . We thus receive in the end such an exact idea of the men he is describing , that ... characters grow gradually before our eyes : while appearing to go at haphazard from one part to another , from some ...
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... with an etymological final e with words with an unetymo- logical final e is one of the readiest tests of the genuine or spurious character of poems ascribed to Chaucer , should have supervened . Let it be said at once 28 INTRODUCTION .
... with an etymological final e with words with an unetymo- logical final e is one of the readiest tests of the genuine or spurious character of poems ascribed to Chaucer , should have supervened . Let it be said at once 28 INTRODUCTION .
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... character Chaucer may have had in mind the son of his patron . " -Studies in Chaucer , i . 91-3 . worthy distinguished , either for rank , wealth , achievements , or character ; hence sometimes well - to - do , respectable . Cf. Jl . 47 ...
... character Chaucer may have had in mind the son of his patron . " -Studies in Chaucer , i . 91-3 . worthy distinguished , either for rank , wealth , achievements , or character ; hence sometimes well - to - do , respectable . Cf. Jl . 47 ...
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... character , the chivalric courtesy which , while guarding the man's own dignity , respected fully the rights and ... characters . 71. no maner wight : nobody whatever . Note the M.E. ( Middle English ) use of maner with a kind of ...
... character , the chivalric courtesy which , while guarding the man's own dignity , respected fully the rights and ... characters . 71. no maner wight : nobody whatever . Note the M.E. ( Middle English ) use of maner with a kind of ...
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A. J. WYATT ageyn B.Sc berd biforn BRIGGS Camb Cambalo Cambyuskan Canacee Canterbury Canterbury Tales century Chaucer courtepy doon dooth Ellesmere English falcon French fressh Friar gentil Glossary greet habergeon haddë hath heed heere heigh Hengwrt Henry herte hire hise horse Icel John of Gaunt king Knight Knight's Tale kyng Latin lines LL.D M.A. Lond M.A. Oxon magic magyk manere Matriculation Monk's Tale myghte noght noon Nun's Nun's Priest's Tale oother pilgrims prep pres pret Prologue and Tale pron saugh Second Edition seyde seyn shal sholde Skeat solempne speke Squire's Tale story swich Tabard tellen Text-Book ther Therfore thyng Troilus and Cressida Tutorial tyme Tyrwhitt unto verb W. H. Low Wel koude whan withouten wolde woot word wyde yeer
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Page 4 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Page 23 - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Page 24 - In Gernade at the seege eek hadde he be Of Algezir, and riden in Belmarye. At Lyeys was he, and at Satalye, Whan they were wonne, and in the Grete See At many a noble armee* hadde he be.
Page 5 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass Of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Page 24 - Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre, And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre, As wel in Cristendom as in Hethenesse, And evere honoured for his worthynesse. At Alisaundre he was, whan it was wonne; Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne...
Page 27 - She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle, Ne wette hir fyngres in hir sauce depe; Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe 130 That no drope ne fille upon hire brest.
Page 25 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Page 39 - His mouth as greet was as a greet forneys. He was a janglere and a goliardeys, 560 And that was moost of synne and harlotries. Wel koude he stelen corn and tollen thries, And yet he hadde a thombe of gold, pardee.
Page 43 - Ne was ther swich another pardoner. For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer, Which that he seyde was Oure Lady veyl. 695 He seyde he hadde a gobet of the seyl That Seint Peter hadde, whan that he wente Upon the see, til Jhesu Crist hym hente.