Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1854 - English poetry |
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... LORD BUCKHURST . With Notes and Memoirs . In One Volume . 28. 6d . POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER , together with Illus- trative Selections from the Works of Lloyd , Cotton , Brooke , Darwin , and Hayley . With Notes and Memoirs , and ...
... LORD BUCKHURST . With Notes and Memoirs . In One Volume . 28. 6d . POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER , together with Illus- trative Selections from the Works of Lloyd , Cotton , Brooke , Darwin , and Hayley . With Notes and Memoirs , and ...
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... Lord Scrope and Sir Richard Grosvenor . In this document , Chaucer avers that he was then of the age of 40 and upwards , ' which would fix his birth about 1343 or 1344 ; but as the depositions of the other witnesses on the same occasion ...
... Lord Scrope and Sir Richard Grosvenor . In this document , Chaucer avers that he was then of the age of 40 and upwards , ' which would fix his birth about 1343 or 1344 ; but as the depositions of the other witnesses on the same occasion ...
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... Lord Scrope to the Arms ' azure a bend or , ' in opposition to the claim of Sir Robert Grosvenor . As every personal anecdote relating to Chaucer deserves preservation , the concluding passage of his deposition will be read with ...
... Lord Scrope to the Arms ' azure a bend or , ' in opposition to the claim of Sir Robert Grosvenor . As every personal anecdote relating to Chaucer deserves preservation , the concluding passage of his deposition will be read with ...
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... Lord's Prayer , ' Hallowed be thy name ! ' is the translation of sanctifi- cetur nomen tuum . Kouthe , known , from kennen , to know , survives in our uncouth , unknown , strange . 3 Thomas à Becket , the Chancellor of Henry II . The ...
... Lord's Prayer , ' Hallowed be thy name ! ' is the translation of sanctifi- cetur nomen tuum . Kouthe , known , from kennen , to know , survives in our uncouth , unknown , strange . 3 Thomas à Becket , the Chancellor of Henry II . The ...
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... Lord de Joinville tells us that she came into his cabin in great distress , and that he said to her , Madame , vow to make a pilgrimage to my Lord Saint Nicholas , at Varengeville , and I promise you that God will restore us in safety ...
... Lord de Joinville tells us that she came into his cabin in great distress , and that he said to her , Madame , vow to make a pilgrimage to my Lord Saint Nicholas , at Varengeville , and I promise you that God will restore us in safety ...
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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.