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... supposed to have made acquaintanceship with Petrarch , who was at Arqua , two miles from Padua , in 1373 , from January till September , and to have learned from him the tale of the patient Griselda . But it is not certain that the old ...
... supposed to have made acquaintanceship with Petrarch , who was at Arqua , two miles from Padua , in 1373 , from January till September , and to have learned from him the tale of the patient Griselda . But it is not certain that the old ...
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... supposed capable of associating upon that footing of temporary equality which is the law of good fellowship , among travellers bound on the same journey and accidentally brought together . All the great classes of English humanity are ...
... supposed capable of associating upon that footing of temporary equality which is the law of good fellowship , among travellers bound on the same journey and accidentally brought together . All the great classes of English humanity are ...
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... supposed to see them at the window , and to be not dis- pleased with their admiration . Arcita is released at the request of Perithous ; takes his leave of Palemone , with embraces , & c . ' Bk . iv . Arcita , having changed his name to ...
... supposed to see them at the window , and to be not dis- pleased with their admiration . Arcita is released at the request of Perithous ; takes his leave of Palemone , with embraces , & c . ' Bk . iv . Arcita , having changed his name to ...
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... supposed , " half his course . " The results of the two explanations are quite different . Taking Chaucer's own expression as it stands , he tells us that , a little past the middle of April , " the young sun has run his half - course ...
... supposed , " half his course . " The results of the two explanations are quite different . Taking Chaucer's own expression as it stands , he tells us that , a little past the middle of April , " the young sun has run his half - course ...
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... supposed originally to have worn the tabard , since called , by mistake , the Talbot . 23. hostelrye , a lodging , inn , house , residence . Hostler properly signi- fies the keeper of an inn , and not , as now , the servant of an inn ...
... supposed originally to have worn the tabard , since called , by mistake , the Talbot . 23. hostelrye , a lodging , inn , house , residence . Hostler properly signi- fies the keeper of an inn , and not , as now , the servant of an inn ...
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PROLOGUE THE KNIGHTES TALE THE Geoffrey D. 1400 Chaucer,Richard 1833-1894 Morris,Walter W. (Walter William) 1835 Skeat No preview available - 2016 |
PROLOGUE THE KNIGHTES TALE THE Richard 1833-1894 Morris,Geoffrey D. 1400 Chaucer,Walter W. (Walter William) 1835 Skeat No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 13 - PERSOUN of a toun; But riche he was of holy thoght and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 8 - For his science, and for his heigh renoun Of fees and robes hadde he many oon. So greet a purchasour was nowher noon. Al was fee simple to him in effect, His purchasing mighte nat been infect. 320 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
Page 15 - To drawen folk to heven by fairnesse By good ensample, this was his bisynesse...
Page lxii - 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 121 - The gees for fere flowen over the trees; Out of the hyve cam the swarm of bees; So hidous was the noyse, a! benedicite! Certes, he Jakke Straw, and his meynee...
Page 5 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 23 - 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 7 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre; But al that he mighte of his freendes hente...
Page 2 - But for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed. But soore weep she if oon of hem were deed, Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte; And al was conscience, and tendre herte.
Page 3 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By-cause that it was old and som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...