Geoffrey Chaucer's the Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The Knight's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale |
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... high - low series , the loud - soft series . There are , too , pauses which we regard as parts of the speech series and discriminate from those stops and breaks which we ascribe to imperfections in voice or mind . Each of - We may these ...
... high - low series , the loud - soft series . There are , too , pauses which we regard as parts of the speech series and discriminate from those stops and breaks which we ascribe to imperfections in voice or mind . Each of - We may these ...
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... high - low series , except such as may be afforded by the modern punctuation . And yet every story - teller knows that his intention , especially his humour , is rarely ap- preciated unless some subtle inflection intimates to the hearer ...
... high - low series , except such as may be afforded by the modern punctuation . And yet every story - teller knows that his intention , especially his humour , is rarely ap- preciated unless some subtle inflection intimates to the hearer ...
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... squadrons form , And the mighty mass rolls inland , foul with rain ; And , like a foe , the flood bursts out of the sky , And the very æther topples from on high . " Five hundred years from now can any one , having 164 READING ALOUD.
... squadrons form , And the mighty mass rolls inland , foul with rain ; And , like a foe , the flood bursts out of the sky , And the very æther topples from on high . " Five hundred years from now can any one , having 164 READING ALOUD.
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... High Teutonic ( German ) . ( b ) Low Germanic ( Old Frisian , Anglo- Saxon or Old English , Old Frank- ish , Frisian , English , Platt - deutsch , Dutch , Flemish ) . Many an Englishman has added to his mother- tongue borrowings THE ...
... High Teutonic ( German ) . ( b ) Low Germanic ( Old Frisian , Anglo- Saxon or Old English , Old Frank- ish , Frisian , English , Platt - deutsch , Dutch , Flemish ) . Many an Englishman has added to his mother- tongue borrowings THE ...
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... high . 4424-4440 . These questions of " fate , free will , foreknowl- edge absolute " bulked large in Chaucer's mind . His transla- tion of Boethius and the reflections that interrupt the course even of his lighter poems show his ...
... high . 4424-4440 . These questions of " fate , free will , foreknowl- edge absolute " bulked large in Chaucer's mind . His transla- tion of Boethius and the reflections that interrupt the course even of his lighter poems show his ...
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Page 264 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 137 - Or elles, if free choys be graunted me To do that same thing, or do it noght, Though god forwoot it, er that it was wroght ; Or if his witing streyneth nevere a del But by necessitee condicionel.
Page 11 - Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it nat miscarie ; He was a shepherde and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nat despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discreet and benigne.
Page 3 - Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
Page 2 - For him was lever have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye.
Page 20 - In Southwerk, at this gentil hostelrye, That highte the Tabard, faste by the Belle. But now is tyme to yow for to telle How that we baren us that ilke night, Whan we were in that hostelrye alight. And after wol I telle of our viage, And al the remenaunt of our pilgrimage.
Page 125 - Seyde he nat thus, ne do no fors of dremes? Now, sire," quod she, "whan we flee fro the bemes, For Goddes love, as...