Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1854 - English poetry |
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... metres hath , ne flouris of sentence , & c . - Ib . 3 Tyrwhitt confesses himself unable to explain how Boccaccio should have acquired the name of Lollius , and the Filostrato the title of Trophe ; but Godwin sees no difficulty in the ...
... metres hath , ne flouris of sentence , & c . - Ib . 3 Tyrwhitt confesses himself unable to explain how Boccaccio should have acquired the name of Lollius , and the Filostrato the title of Trophe ; but Godwin sees no difficulty in the ...
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... metre of his poetry depended upon some nicety of orthography and pronunciation - one , amongst many reasons , why any attempt to substitute the modern for the ancient orthography is incompatible with the preservation of the metre and ...
... metre of his poetry depended upon some nicety of orthography and pronunciation - one , amongst many reasons , why any attempt to substitute the modern for the ancient orthography is incompatible with the preservation of the metre and ...
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... metre . The two theories on this subject are thus stated by Mr. Hallam in his History of the Literature of the Middle Ages : It had been supposed to be proved by Tyrwhitt , that Chaucer's lines are to be read metrically , in ten or ...
... metre . The two theories on this subject are thus stated by Mr. Hallam in his History of the Literature of the Middle Ages : It had been supposed to be proved by Tyrwhitt , that Chaucer's lines are to be read metrically , in ten or ...
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... metre . He justly observes that in Chaucer's versification we never fail to recognize a uni- formity of measure , which the use of nearly equipollent feet cannot , on the strictest metrical principles , be thought to impair . ' If an ...
... metre . He justly observes that in Chaucer's versification we never fail to recognize a uni- formity of measure , which the use of nearly equipollent feet cannot , on the strictest metrical principles , be thought to impair . ' If an ...
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... metres , as pentameter and Sapphic , the place of the cęsura never varies ; it varies least in Pope , whose metre is more regular than that of any of our poets , and most in Milton , the melody of whose verse depends more . chiefly upon ...
... metres , as pentameter and Sapphic , the place of the cęsura never varies ; it varies least in Pope , whose metre is more regular than that of any of our poets , and most in Milton , the melody of whose verse depends more . chiefly upon ...
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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.