Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1854 - English poetry |
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... poems ; and any attempt at chronological arrangement would , consequently , be imperfect and illusory . Tradition , in some instances , supplies a ground of conjecture ; and in others , particular circumstances indicate generally the ...
... poems ; and any attempt at chronological arrangement would , consequently , be imperfect and illusory . Tradition , in some instances , supplies a ground of conjecture ; and in others , particular circumstances indicate generally the ...
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... poems from such materials as these , his great work , The Canterbury Tales , has been placed first , in con- formity with the example of previous editions ; and the order of the remaining poems has been settled by considerations ...
... poems from such materials as these , his great work , The Canterbury Tales , has been placed first , in con- formity with the example of previous editions ; and the order of the remaining poems has been settled by considerations ...
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... poems all the points relating to the text , to the variations of MSS . , and to mooted questions of authenticity , while it has the effect of scattering the testimonies of the diligence bestowed upon the work , possesses this obvious ...
... poems all the points relating to the text , to the variations of MSS . , and to mooted questions of authenticity , while it has the effect of scattering the testimonies of the diligence bestowed upon the work , possesses this obvious ...
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... poems of Chaucer ; but from the comprehensiveness of its design , it will be equally avail- able as a guide to the works of the writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , and even of a later period . The stores of provincial ...
... poems of Chaucer ; but from the comprehensiveness of its design , it will be equally avail- able as a guide to the works of the writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , and even of a later period . The stores of provincial ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Bell. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . ADVERTISEMENT MEMOIR INTRODUCTION · POEMS BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER . THE PROLOGUE . The Canterbury Tales . • PAGE iii 39 73 THE KNIGHTES TALE · 111 THE PROLOGE OF THE MYLLER THE ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Bell. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . ADVERTISEMENT MEMOIR INTRODUCTION · POEMS BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER . THE PROLOGUE . The Canterbury Tales . • PAGE iii 39 73 THE KNIGHTES TALE · 111 THE PROLOGE OF THE MYLLER THE ...
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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.