The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With Poems Formely Printed Withhis Or Attributed to HimG. Bell and Sons, 1906 |
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... appear entitled , from internal or external evidence , to be considered genuine ; " but it includes , as a fact , a considerable number which are now positively known to be spurious . It did not seem advisable , however , to omit these ...
... appear entitled , from internal or external evidence , to be considered genuine ; " but it includes , as a fact , a considerable number which are now positively known to be spurious . It did not seem advisable , however , to omit these ...
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... appears very old , holding , as in Occleve's portrait , a string of beads in his left hand . 1 The birth of Chaucer ... appear . In the deposition made by Chaucer in 1386 , he says that he had then borne arms for twenty - seven years ...
... appears very old , holding , as in Occleve's portrait , a string of beads in his left hand . 1 The birth of Chaucer ... appear . In the deposition made by Chaucer in 1386 , he says that he had then borne arms for twenty - seven years ...
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... appears to be generally admitted , that it was composed with reference to the intended marriage between John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster , which took place in 1359 , and which the lady is represented in the poem as deferring for a ...
... appears to be generally admitted , that it was composed with reference to the intended marriage between John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster , which took place in 1359 , and which the lady is represented in the poem as deferring for a ...
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... appear to be the most authentic . • Endless discussions might be raised on such passages as Godwin cites , leaving the question in the end exactly where it was in the beginning . More consideration is due to the authentic statement that ...
... appear to be the most authentic . • Endless discussions might be raised on such passages as Godwin cites , leaving the question in the end exactly where it was in the beginning . More consideration is due to the authentic statement that ...
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... appears to have been absent from Eng- land , on the King's service , in the summer of 1370 ; and towards the end of ... appear to have originated in the grant and appointment above - mentioned , which alone is sustained by evidence ...
... appears to have been absent from Eng- land , on the King's service , in the summer of 1370 ; and towards the end of ... appear to have originated in the grant and appointment above - mentioned , which alone is sustained by evidence ...
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