Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1854 - English poetry |
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... Original Letters of the Poet , now printed for the first time , with Notes , Critical and Historical . Three Volumes , containing 904 pp . 78. 6d . POETICAL WORKS OF THE EARL OF SURREY , OF MINOR CON- TEMPORANEOUS POETS , AND OF ...
... Original Letters of the Poet , now printed for the first time , with Notes , Critical and Historical . Three Volumes , containing 904 pp . 78. 6d . POETICAL WORKS OF THE EARL OF SURREY , OF MINOR CON- TEMPORANEOUS POETS , AND OF ...
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... original was a Latin author ' called Lollius . ' No such book or author has ever been discovered to have existed ; and the substance of the poem , which Chaucer amplified and altered , is to be found in the Filostrato of Boccaccio.3 The ...
... original was a Latin author ' called Lollius . ' No such book or author has ever been discovered to have existed ; and the substance of the poem , which Chaucer amplified and altered , is to be found in the Filostrato of Boccaccio.3 The ...
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... original source . That he has not acknowledged his obligations to Boccaccio elsewhere is nothing to the purpose ; for in those instances he makes no acknowledgment whatever , while here he goes out of his way to make an explicit avowal ...
... original source . That he has not acknowledged his obligations to Boccaccio elsewhere is nothing to the purpose ; for in those instances he makes no acknowledgment whatever , while here he goes out of his way to make an explicit avowal ...
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... original freshness and fascination . The language in which he wrote has long ceased to be the language of the people ; yet the eager student conquers its structural diffi- culties with delight to enter upon the treasures it throws open ...
... original freshness and fascination . The language in which he wrote has long ceased to be the language of the people ; yet the eager student conquers its structural diffi- culties with delight to enter upon the treasures it throws open ...
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... originals . His method of proceeding in The Canterbury Tales is the most effective that could be devised for trans- mitting to subsequent ages an accurate expression of the social and moral development of his own . He never 4-2 ...
... originals . His method of proceeding in The Canterbury Tales is the most effective that could be devised for trans- mitting to subsequent ages an accurate expression of the social and moral development of his own . He never 4-2 ...
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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.