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... mediæval atmosphere in both its manifestations has vanished , and the human spirit cannot be expected to return to it again . For it was essentially unprogressive , a fashion whose roots did not strike to the per- manent deeps of human ...
... mediæval atmosphere in both its manifestations has vanished , and the human spirit cannot be expected to return to it again . For it was essentially unprogressive , a fashion whose roots did not strike to the per- manent deeps of human ...
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... mediæval literature his work is like a lively inn unexpectedly discovered in a benighted wilderness ; the mere reader of poetry will find it no less jolly , no less refreshing . can . Considered in relation to English literature alone ...
... mediæval literature his work is like a lively inn unexpectedly discovered in a benighted wilderness ; the mere reader of poetry will find it no less jolly , no less refreshing . can . Considered in relation to English literature alone ...
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... mediæval museum . It represents the end of a tradition . Langland was endeavouring to revive the ashes of a burnt- out fire , while Chaucer with surer instinct and more mundane purpose was following the gleam of the future . Langland ...
... mediæval museum . It represents the end of a tradition . Langland was endeavouring to revive the ashes of a burnt- out fire , while Chaucer with surer instinct and more mundane purpose was following the gleam of the future . Langland ...
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... mediæval records has made it possible to fix 1340 as the approximate birth - year of Geoffrey Chaucer and the city of London as his birth- place . His father , John Chaucer , was a vintner of some position and fortune in the city , and ...
... mediæval records has made it possible to fix 1340 as the approximate birth - year of Geoffrey Chaucer and the city of London as his birth- place . His father , John Chaucer , was a vintner of some position and fortune in the city , and ...
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... mediæval magnificence had in England almost reached its zenith . The spoils of the French wars were being lavishly squandered by Edward and his courtiers . The days were filled with sports , and the nights with gorgeous entertainments ...
... mediæval magnificence had in England almost reached its zenith . The spoils of the French wars were being lavishly squandered by Edward and his courtiers . The days were filled with sports , and the nights with gorgeous entertainments ...
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Page 166 - What sholde I moore unto this tale sayn ? The peple out sterte and caste the cart to grounde, And in the myddel of the dong they founde The dede man, that mordred was al newe. " O blisful God, that art so just and trewe ! Lo, how that thou biwreyest...
Page 130 - And she was cleped madame Eglentyne. Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely...
Page 127 - A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
Page 135 - As leene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.
Page 138 - And if ther dide, certeyn so wrooth was she That she was out of alle charitee. Hir coverchiefs...
Page 164 - graunt mercy of youre loore, But nathelees, as touchyng Daun Catoun, That hath of wysdom swich a greet renoun, Though that he bad no dremes for to drede, By God, men may in olde bookes rede Of many a man moore of...
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Page 138 - And yet he was but esy of. dispence; He kepte that he wan in pestilence; For gold in phisik is a cordial : Therfore he lovede gold in special. A good WIF was ther OF biside BATHE, 445 But she was somdel deef, and that was scathe. Of clooth-makyng she hadde swich an haunt, She passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt.
Page 133 - A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. His heed was balled, that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he hadde been enoynt. He was a lord ful fat and in good poynt...
Page 132 - A manly man, to been an abbot able. Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable: And, whan he rood, men mighte his brydel here Ginglen in a whistling wind...