Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1854 - English poetry |
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... occur in The Court of Love , and The Testament of Love . 2 The principal biographers of Chaucer are - 1 . Leland . 2. Speght , 1598. 3. Urry , 1721. This biography was not written by Urry , having been prefixed to the folio after his ...
... occur in The Court of Love , and The Testament of Love . 2 The principal biographers of Chaucer are - 1 . Leland . 2. Speght , 1598. 3. Urry , 1721. This biography was not written by Urry , having been prefixed to the folio after his ...
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... occurs in 1359 , when it appears , upon his own authority , that he served under 1 When I was yong at xviii yere of age , Lusty and light , desirous of plesaunce , & c . Court of Love . Upon this passage , which is clearly retrospective ...
... occurs in 1359 , when it appears , upon his own authority , that he served under 1 When I was yong at xviii yere of age , Lusty and light , desirous of plesaunce , & c . Court of Love . Upon this passage , which is clearly retrospective ...
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... . Godwin tells us that ' their nuptials were cele- brated as soon as the general laws of decorum , and the ideas of female delicacy , would allow ! ' 3 The next authentic notice of Chaucer occurs in a GEOFFREY CHAUCER . 21.
... . Godwin tells us that ' their nuptials were cele- brated as soon as the general laws of decorum , and the ideas of female delicacy , would allow ! ' 3 The next authentic notice of Chaucer occurs in a GEOFFREY CHAUCER . 21.
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Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Bell. 3 The next authentic notice of Chaucer occurs in a writ dated 23rd April , 1374 , granting him a pitcher of wine daily , ' afterwards commuted into a money payment . In the same year he was appointed ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Bell. 3 The next authentic notice of Chaucer occurs in a writ dated 23rd April , 1374 , granting him a pitcher of wine daily , ' afterwards commuted into a money payment . In the same year he was appointed ...
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... occurs in Book vii . , where Venus is introduced giving instruc- tions to Gower , who has been making his shrift , or confession : - ' And grete well Chaucer , whan ye mete , As my disciple and my poete , For in the floures of his youth ...
... occurs in Book vii . , where Venus is introduced giving instruc- tions to Gower , who has been making his shrift , or confession : - ' And grete well Chaucer , whan ye mete , As my disciple and my poete , For in the floures of his youth ...
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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.