Geoffrey Chaucer's the Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The Knight's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 35
Page
... Lord Clive . Macaulay's Essay on Milton . Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hast- ings . Milton's Comus , Lycidas , and Other Poems . Milton's Paradise Lost , Books I and II . Poe's Prose Tales . Pope's Homer's Iliad . Ruskin's Sesame and ...
... Lord Clive . Macaulay's Essay on Milton . Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hast- ings . Milton's Comus , Lycidas , and Other Poems . Milton's Paradise Lost , Books I and II . Poe's Prose Tales . Pope's Homer's Iliad . Ruskin's Sesame and ...
Page
... Lord Clive . Macaulay's Essay on Milton . Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hast- ings . Milton's Comus , Lycidas , and Other Poems . Milton's Paradise Lost , Books I anċ II . Poe's Prose Tales . Pope's Homer's Iliad . Ruskin's Sesame and ...
... Lord Clive . Macaulay's Essay on Milton . Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hast- ings . Milton's Comus , Lycidas , and Other Poems . Milton's Paradise Lost , Books I anċ II . Poe's Prose Tales . Pope's Homer's Iliad . Ruskin's Sesame and ...
Page 3
... lord of Palatye , Agayn another hethen in Turkye : 65 And everemore 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 nevere yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf ...
... lord of Palatye , Agayn another hethen in Turkye : 65 And everemore 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 nevere yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf ...
Page 8
... lord was keper of the celle . The reule of seynt Maure or of seynt Beneit ° By cause that it was old and som - del streit , This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace , And held after the newe world the space . He yaf nat of that text a ...
... lord was keper of the celle . The reule of seynt Maure or of seynt Beneit ° By cause that it was old and som - del streit , This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace , And held after the newe world the space . He yaf nat of that text a ...
Page 9
... lord ful fat and in good poynt ; His eyen stepe and rollinge in his heed , That stemed as a forneys of a leed ; His botes souple , his hors in greet estat . Now certeynly he was a fair prelat ; He was nat pale as a for - pined goost . A ...
... lord ful fat and in good poynt ; His eyen stepe and rollinge in his heed , That stemed as a forneys of a leed ; His botes souple , his hors in greet estat . Now certeynly he was a fair prelat ; He was nat pale as a for - pined goost . A ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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...