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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and ... - Page 15
by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 122 pages
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Chaucer.- Surrey.- Wyat.- Sackville.- v. 2. Spenser.- Shakespeare.- Davies ...

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 794 pages
...• and his philofophie Then robes riche, or fidel or fautrie : But all be that he wai a philofophre Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes heotc On bokes and on lerning he it fpente, And befily pan for the foulcs praie Of hem that yave him...
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Chaucer

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 766 pages
...clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautria. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he...that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on leming he it spente, And besily gan for the soules praie Of hem, that yave him wherwith to tcolaie....
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Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from ...

Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 470 pages
...clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 300 But all th t he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it sperite, And besily gan...
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Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from ...

Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 466 pages
...clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 300 But all th.-.t he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lernirtg he ft spente, And besily...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he...gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente5, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for the soules praie Of hem, that yave...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 1

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 468 pages
...elothed in blaek or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riehe, or Iidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in eofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily...
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Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...philosophie, Than robfis riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet haddd he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendds hente 5, On bokes and on leraing he it spente, And besily gan for the soules praie Of hem,...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 1

English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...rich, or fidel, or sautrie — Sautrie is psaltry, a kind of harp or dulcimer to sing psalms to : — But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in coi're — " Yet" is a pleasant assumption ; as if anything else was expected of philosophy ! or perhaps...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche; or fidel ; or sautrie: d thus, behold instead Of us out-cast, exil'd, his...for him this world. So farewell hope, and with hop leming he it spente; And besily gan for the soulea praie Of hem that yave him wherwith to scolaie....
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...elothed in blaek or red, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riehe ; or fidel ; or sautrie : But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in eofre ; But all that he might of his (rendes hente. On bokes and on leming he it spente ; And besily...
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