The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With Poems Formely Printed Withhis Or Attributed to HimG. Bell and Sons, 1906 |
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... fair and beautiful complexion , his lips full and red , his size of a just medium , and his port and air graceful and majestic . " It is curious that in this year , 1359 , when Chaucer was a prisoner in France , Godwin confidently ...
... fair and beautiful complexion , his lips full and red , his size of a just medium , and his port and air graceful and majestic . " It is curious that in this year , 1359 , when Chaucer was a prisoner in France , Godwin confidently ...
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... fair , and wore that thoughtful expression which is conspicuous in his portrait . The host also notices his habit of abstraction , which is again alluded to in The House of Fame , where he is described sitting at his book till his look ...
... fair , and wore that thoughtful expression which is conspicuous in his portrait . The host also notices his habit of abstraction , which is again alluded to in The House of Fame , where he is described sitting at his book till his look ...
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... , and gives a very fair result . It must be remembered that the publications of the ' Chaucer Society have lately cleared up many doubtful points . - W . W.BJ Mr. Wright's edition , or from the original MS . 60 INTRODUCTION .
... , and gives a very fair result . It must be remembered that the publications of the ' Chaucer Society have lately cleared up many doubtful points . - W . W.BJ Mr. Wright's edition , or from the original MS . 60 INTRODUCTION .
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... fair forheed . It was almost a spanne brood , I trowe ; For hardily sche was not undurgrowe . Ful fetys was hire cloke , as I was waar . Of smal coral aboute hire arme sche baar A peire of bedes gaudid al with grene ; ' And theron heng ...
... fair forheed . It was almost a spanne brood , I trowe ; For hardily sche was not undurgrowe . Ful fetys was hire cloke , as I was waar . Of smal coral aboute hire arme sche baar A peire of bedes gaudid al with grene ; ' And theron heng ...
Page 84
... fair for the maistrie , An out - rydere , that loved venerye ; * A manly man , to ben an abbot able . Full many a deynte hors hadde he in stable : And whan he rood , men might his bridel ' heere Gyngle in a whistlyng wynd so cleere ...
... fair for the maistrie , An out - rydere , that loved venerye ; * A manly man , to ben an abbot able . Full many a deynte hors hadde he in stable : And whan he rood , men might his bridel ' heere Gyngle in a whistlyng wynd so cleere ...
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