Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1854 - English poetry |
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... present age demands . The Edition now proposed will be distinguished from all receding Editions in many important respects . It will include Le works of several Poets entirely omitted from previous Col- ections , especially those stores ...
... present age demands . The Edition now proposed will be distinguished from all receding Editions in many important respects . It will include Le works of several Poets entirely omitted from previous Col- ections , especially those stores ...
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... present a succinct account of English Poetry from the earliest times down to a period which will connect it with the Series of the Poets , through whose Lives the History of our Poetical Literature will be continued to the present time ...
... present a succinct account of English Poetry from the earliest times down to a period which will connect it with the Series of the Poets , through whose Lives the History of our Poetical Literature will be continued to the present time ...
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... present a difficulty to the general reader from their involved structure , or their obsolete idiom . The Glossary which terminates the volumes has been com- piled with a special view to the poems of Chaucer ; but from the ...
... present a difficulty to the general reader from their involved structure , or their obsolete idiom . The Glossary which terminates the volumes has been com- piled with a special view to the poems of Chaucer ; but from the ...
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... present themselves in the course of the inquiry , and to reduce a question of some literary interest to its exact limits . The result is clear and simple . There are no proofs that Chaucer and Petrarch met at Padua ; nor is there , on ...
... present themselves in the course of the inquiry , and to reduce a question of some literary interest to its exact limits . The result is clear and simple . There are no proofs that Chaucer and Petrarch met at Padua ; nor is there , on ...
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... present in Milan with Petrarch , at the Duke of Clarence's marriage , in 1368 — a circumstance of which no proof of any kind can be adduced . 2 The money value of the grant may be estimated from the amount received in payment of the ...
... present in Milan with Petrarch , at the Duke of Clarence's marriage , in 1368 — a circumstance of which no proof of any kind can be adduced . 2 The money value of the grant may be estimated from the amount received in payment of 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.