Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1854 - English poetry |
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... Saxon races became fused , and our language and social institutions assumed forms that have descended with some modifications to the present time . A strong government had at length secured internal peace ; the supremacy of law over ...
... Saxon races became fused , and our language and social institutions assumed forms that have descended with some modifications to the present time . A strong government had at length secured internal peace ; the supremacy of law over ...
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... Saxon lingered for a long time among the lower orders in remote districts is shown by our provincial dialects of the present day , which still retain incontestable traces of a Saxon origin ; and by the no less striking fact that most of ...
... Saxon lingered for a long time among the lower orders in remote districts is shown by our provincial dialects of the present day , which still retain incontestable traces of a Saxon origin ; and by the no less striking fact that most of ...
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... Saxon , and its graces French . In Chaucer's time , and long afterwards , this distinction was much more clearly defined than it is now ; the general diffusion of education , and the modern facilities of intercourse , having swept away ...
... Saxon , and its graces French . In Chaucer's time , and long afterwards , this distinction was much more clearly defined than it is now ; the general diffusion of education , and the modern facilities of intercourse , having swept away ...
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... Saxon , and the gradual rejec- tion of the original forms of both , is palpably developed in the writings of Chaucer , where we find the ancient inflections and the modern simple form frequently used indifferently in the same line . The ...
... Saxon , and the gradual rejec- tion of the original forms of both , is palpably developed in the writings of Chaucer , where we find the ancient inflections and the modern simple form frequently used indifferently in the same line . The ...
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... Saxon form heo , with a hissing aspirate ; for her , hir , the final e of the Anglo - Saxon being dropped ; for their ( German , ihr ) hiré , which comes nearer the Anglo - Saxon hira . The forms wha and whilk , for who and which ...
... Saxon form heo , with a hissing aspirate ; for her , hir , the final e of the Anglo - Saxon being dropped ; for their ( German , ihr ) hiré , which comes nearer the Anglo - Saxon hira . The forms wha and whilk , for who and which ...
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Page 79 - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye, Ageyn another hethen in Turkye : And evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys. And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight.
Page 178 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.
Page 80 - Embrouded was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures, whyte and rede.
Page 107 - For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Page 75 - The holy blisful martir for to seeke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
Page 77 - But natheles, whyl I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed...
Page 115 - WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte Theseus; Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther non under the sonne. Ful many a riche contre...
Page 92 - So chaunged he his mete and his soper. Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in mewe, And many a breem and many a luce in stewe.
Page 86 - Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.