Geoffrey Chaucer's the Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The Knight's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale |
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... indications . Thus a verse is indicated to the eye by the separate line and the initial capital ; and one of the many functions of the marks of punctuation is to distinguish a verse from what precedes and follows it . Chaucer indeed ...
... indications . Thus a verse is indicated to the eye by the separate line and the initial capital ; and one of the many functions of the marks of punctuation is to distinguish a verse from what precedes and follows it . Chaucer indeed ...
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... indications whatever of the high - low series , except such as may be afforded by the modern punctuation . And yet every ... indication whatever of the loud - soft series ; and this , when we are told that Chaucer was , READING ALOUD 163.
... indications whatever of the high - low series , except such as may be afforded by the modern punctuation . And yet every ... indication whatever of the loud - soft series ; and this , when we are told that Chaucer was , READING ALOUD 163.
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... Indication . Modern English has passed to Single Indication , though it still retains some instances of Double and even Triple Indication . In Tho foure yonge men riden yesterday , we find expressed seven times that there were more ...
... Indication . Modern English has passed to Single Indication , though it still retains some instances of Double and even Triple Indication . In Tho foure yonge men riden yesterday , we find expressed seven times that there were more ...
Page 182
... indications of more than one are reduced to three ; for rode is neither singular nor plural . Chaucer would have said he rood , but they riden ; we say he rode and they rode , and ... Indication , the omission of parts of 182 THE LANGUAGE.
... indications of more than one are reduced to three ; for rode is neither singular nor plural . Chaucer would have said he rood , but they riden ; we say he rode and they rode , and ... Indication , the omission of parts of 182 THE LANGUAGE.
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... Indication , the omission of parts of phrases , mark differences that five hundred years have made in the language . The changes in detail are numerous enough , as you cannot fail to note when you compare with the original your written ...
... Indication , the omission of parts of phrases , mark differences that five hundred years have made in the language . The changes in detail are numerous enough , as you cannot fail to note when you compare with the original your written ...
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Page 274 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 277 - The many men so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 23 - Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, 550 Or breke it, at a renning, with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Page 147 - Or elles, if free choys be graunted me To do that same thing, or do it noght, Though god forwoot it, er that it was wroght ; Or if his witing streyneth nevere a del But by necessitee condicionel.
Page 3 - Lettow hadde he reysed and in Ruce, No cristen man so ofte of his degree. 55 In Gernade at the seege eek hadde he be Of Algezir, and riden in Belmarye. At Lyeys was he, and at Satalye, Whan they were wonne, and in the Grete See At many a noble armee* hadde he be.
Page 1 - Whan that Aprille with his? shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Page 7 - Of smal coral aboute hir arm she bar A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene; And ther-on heng a broche of gold ful shene, 160 On which ther was first write a crowned A, And after, Amor vincit omnia.
Page 21 - Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it nat miscarie ; He was a shepherde and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nat despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discreet and benigne.
Page 13 - Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
Page 29 - In Southwerk, at this gentil hostelrye, That highte the Tabard, faste by the Belle.