Chaucer's England, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1869 - England |
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... picture , has in a high degree the quality of physiognomical significance . It occurs at the close of the Prioress's Tale : ' Whan sayd was this miracle , every man As sober was , that wonder was to se , Til that oure host to jape he ...
... picture , has in a high degree the quality of physiognomical significance . It occurs at the close of the Prioress's Tale : ' Whan sayd was this miracle , every man As sober was , that wonder was to se , Til that oure host to jape he ...
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... pictures of character could only have come from a writer who was a man of the world ( as well as a scholar and a poet ) ; he was connected by various links with persons and events which are pro- minent in one of the most splendid eras ...
... pictures of character could only have come from a writer who was a man of the world ( as well as a scholar and a poet ) ; he was connected by various links with persons and events which are pro- minent in one of the most splendid eras ...
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... single fact that we know or pretty certainly guess concerning the life of Chaucer is only a whet to our curiosity ; and such a picture of England in his lifetime as we can make for ourselves out of what 50 Chaucer's England .
... single fact that we know or pretty certainly guess concerning the life of Chaucer is only a whet to our curiosity ; and such a picture of England in his lifetime as we can make for ourselves out of what 50 Chaucer's England .
Page 87
... the pilgrims in the poet's picture , —all this is , I repeat , thoroughly English , and as peculiar to Chaucer as anything English can be . It In would be as reasonable to say that Boccaccio imitated the The Story and the Pilgrims . 87.
... the pilgrims in the poet's picture , —all this is , I repeat , thoroughly English , and as peculiar to Chaucer as anything English can be . It In would be as reasonable to say that Boccaccio imitated the The Story and the Pilgrims . 87.
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... pictures of English life that ever were transmitted at any time in English history by any pen . A very slight experi ... picture , if a modern Chaucer were to paint English life in the nineteenth century . Mr. Tennyson has introduced a ...
... pictures of English life that ever were transmitted at any time in English history by any pen . A very slight experi ... picture , if a modern Chaucer were to paint English life in the nineteenth century . Mr. Tennyson has introduced a ...
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Page 47 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 59 - Mulier est hominis confusio,— Madame, the sentence of this Latyn is, "Womman is mannes joye, and al his blis...
Page 41 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ,• and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 178 - But sore 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 92 - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones: Ful big he was of braun and eek of bones; That proved wel, for over-al ther he cam, At wrastling he wolde have alwey the ram.
Page 42 - Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Page 281 - For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Page 191 - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand: Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her.
Page 167 - Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turned to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be, And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires.
Page 42 - As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.