The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale from the Canterbury TalesClarendon Press, 1880 - 221 pages |
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... Lord Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor . The Council - clerk then entered Chaucer- no doubt by the poet's own authority - as forty years of age and upwards , and as having borne arms for twenty - seven years . If then we take Chaucer's ...
... Lord Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor . The Council - clerk then entered Chaucer- no doubt by the poet's own authority - as forty years of age and upwards , and as having borne arms for twenty - seven years . If then we take Chaucer's ...
Page xii
... Lord of Milan ( whose death Chaucer afterwards brought into his Monk's Tale ) and Sir John Hawkwood , ' on certain affairs touching the expediting the king's wars . ' When Chaucer set out on this embassy he appointed Gower as one of his ...
... Lord of Milan ( whose death Chaucer afterwards brought into his Monk's Tale ) and Sir John Hawkwood , ' on certain affairs touching the expediting the king's wars . ' When Chaucer set out on this embassy he appointed Gower as one of his ...
Page xvii
... Lord , ' is everywhere apparent . What is more sponta- neous and characteristic of the poet than such joyous outbursts as the following ? - • Herkneth these blisful briddës how they synge , And seth the fresschë floures how they springe ...
... Lord , ' is everywhere apparent . What is more sponta- neous and characteristic of the poet than such joyous outbursts as the following ? - • Herkneth these blisful briddës how they synge , And seth the fresschë floures how they springe ...
Page xix
... lords . ( See Persones Tale , ed . Morris , üi . pp . 301 , 332-334 . ) As we have already said , Chaucer's great work , the Canterbury Tales , was not put together till after the year 1386. His earlier literary productions were mostly ...
... lords . ( See Persones Tale , ed . Morris , üi . pp . 301 , 332-334 . ) As we have already said , Chaucer's great work , the Canterbury Tales , was not put together till after the year 1386. His earlier literary productions were mostly ...
Page xlii
... ( Lord ) For the loan ( gift ) he had bestowed on him in that light ( heaven ) , Then would he have allowed him long to possess it ; But he did wend ( turn ) it for himself to a worse purpose , Began to raise up war Against the highest ...
... ( Lord ) For the loan ( gift ) he had bestowed on him in that light ( heaven ) , Then would he have allowed him long to possess it ; But he did wend ( turn ) it for himself to a worse purpose , Began to raise up war Against the highest ...
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