The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale from the Canterbury TalesClarendon Press, 1880 - 221 pages |
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... language ' — a gift which his first poems show as well as his last . It is quite certain that Chaucer was a diligent student and a man of the most extensive learning . ' The acquaintance he possessed with the classics , with divinity ...
... language ' — a gift which his first poems show as well as his last . It is quite certain that Chaucer was a diligent student and a man of the most extensive learning . ' The acquaintance he possessed with the classics , with divinity ...
Page xix
... language , which made his ability as a translator known and highly appreciated by his literary contemporaries . Francis Eustace Deschamps , in a ' Ballade à Geoffroi Chaucer , ' speaks of him in the warmest terms of praise as ' grand ...
... language , which made his ability as a translator known and highly appreciated by his literary contemporaries . Francis Eustace Deschamps , in a ' Ballade à Geoffroi Chaucer , ' speaks of him in the warmest terms of praise as ' grand ...
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... languages . I do not mean that there had previously existed in modern Europe nothing like histrionic representation of real or imaginary ... Language , pp . 417-419 . not made itself very popular . It is not impossible xxiv INTRODUCTION .
... languages . I do not mean that there had previously existed in modern Europe nothing like histrionic representation of real or imaginary ... Language , pp . 417-419 . not made itself very popular . It is not impossible xxiv INTRODUCTION .
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... Language , pp . 423 , 424. ) ' Out of 2,250 of Chaucer's lines , he has only translated 270 ( less than one - eighth ) from Boccaccio ; only 374 more lines bear a general likeness to Boccaccio ; and only 132 more a slight like- ness ...
... Language , pp . 423 , 424. ) ' Out of 2,250 of Chaucer's lines , he has only translated 270 ( less than one - eighth ) from Boccaccio ; only 374 more lines bear a general likeness to Boccaccio ; and only 132 more a slight like- ness ...
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... language , and in this respect it differed from the language of many earlier authors , and especially from that oldest form of English usually termed Anglo - Saxon , which was originally inflected or synthetic , that is to say , it ...
... language , and in this respect it differed from the language of many earlier authors , and especially from that oldest form of English usually termed Anglo - Saxon , which was originally inflected or synthetic , that is to say , it ...
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