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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... give to the sound a longer or shorter duration , can say it in a higher or a lower note , can speak it in a louder or softer tone . There exist in constant association with the vowel - consonant series , and with one another , three ...
... give to the sound a longer or shorter duration , can say it in a higher or a lower note , can speak it in a louder or softer tone . There exist in constant association with the vowel - consonant series , and with one another , three ...
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... give seven years complete . " " Soft in her lap her laureate son reclines . " ― POPE . " And grow incorporate into thee . " " But for the unquiet heart and brain . " " At earliest morning to the door . " 66 Through prosperous floods his ...
... give seven years complete . " " Soft in her lap her laureate son reclines . " ― POPE . " And grow incorporate into thee . " " But for the unquiet heart and brain . " " At earliest morning to the door . " 66 Through prosperous floods his ...
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... give but one instance of what will find ample illus- tration in every page , Chaucer's schoures , showres , shoures , differs not only in spelling and pronunciation from our showers , but in meaning also ; that is to say , in what it ...
... give but one instance of what will find ample illus- tration in every page , Chaucer's schoures , showres , shoures , differs not only in spelling and pronunciation from our showers , but in meaning also ; that is to say , in what it ...
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... give any account of their own usage . The presence and absence of the pronoun then should be determined by its utility . If nouns and verbs had suitable inflections , it would be introduced solely for the sake of the meaning of its stem ...
... give any account of their own usage . The presence and absence of the pronoun then should be determined by its utility . If nouns and verbs had suitable inflections , it would be introduced solely for the sake of the meaning of its stem ...
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... gives the Tabard whatever dimensions we may wish . The art that omits from the Prologue a description of Chaucer , to introduce later the host's bantering char- acterization of him , tells in what realm we are : " What man artow ...
... gives the Tabard whatever dimensions we may wish . The art that omits from the Prologue a description of Chaucer , to introduce later the host's bantering char- acterization of him , tells in what realm we are : " What man artow ...
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adoun agayn Allas anon Arcite Atthenes aventure berd biforn bigan Canterbury Canterbury Tales chambre Chaucer Chauntecleer compaignye contree courtepy Creon deeth doon doun dremes Emelye English everich eyen felawe gentil goon greet grene grete hath heed heer heigh herte highte hond king knight KNIGHT'S TALE lady leoun litel lord maad Mars meaning moot mordre namore noon nought NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE Palamon peyne pleyn plural poem povre prisoun Prologue quod rede riden saugh seyde seye seyn Seynt shal sholde slayn sone sonne sorwe spak speke spere sterte swerd swich syllable Tabard Tale tellen Thanne Thebes thee ther Theseus thilke thing thise thou thurgh thyn toun trewe tweye unto Venus verse Wel coude wepne weren weye whan wher whyl whyt wight withouten wolde wommen woot word yeer yerd yonge
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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...