Chaucer's Canterbury PilgrimageWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 283 pages |
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... . in their knowledge of beautiful stories , illustrative of high and noble thoughts , and expressed in verse whose melody has never been surpassed . It is certainly the case that Chaucer is not read. INTRODUCTORY SKETCH,
... . in their knowledge of beautiful stories , illustrative of high and noble thoughts , and expressed in verse whose melody has never been surpassed . It is certainly the case that Chaucer is not read. INTRODUCTORY SKETCH,
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... never in all the range of our English literature been subjected to greater castigation , or held up to more deserved oppro- brium , than by him . As is the case with several of our greatest men in by - past times , we know very little ...
... never in all the range of our English literature been subjected to greater castigation , or held up to more deserved oppro- brium , than by him . As is the case with several of our greatest men in by - past times , we know very little ...
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... never failed him - his delight in books . Alluding to this in his ' House of Fame , ' he tells us that the bird of Jove said to him in his dream : — " For when thy labour all done is , And hast y - made thy reckonings , Instead of rest ...
... never failed him - his delight in books . Alluding to this in his ' House of Fame , ' he tells us that the bird of Jove said to him in his dream : — " For when thy labour all done is , And hast y - made thy reckonings , Instead of rest ...
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... never failed to take advantage of , and one in describing which he revels with glad delight all through his poetry . He tells us- " And as for me , though I have knowledge slight , In bookés for to read I me delight , And to them give I ...
... never failed to take advantage of , and one in describing which he revels with glad delight all through his poetry . He tells us- " And as for me , though I have knowledge slight , In bookés for to read I me delight , And to them give I ...
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... never men- tions his name , and he had evidently a great reverence for Dante , who had passed to his rest . many years before . From the terms in which in the " Clerk's Tale " he speaks of " Fraunceys Petrark , the Laureate Poete ...
... never men- tions his name , and he had evidently a great reverence for Dante , who had passed to his rest . many years before . From the terms in which in the " Clerk's Tale " he speaks of " Fraunceys Petrark , the Laureate Poete ...
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