The Prologue and the Knight's TaleUniversity Press, 1908 - 229 pages |
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... Canterbury Tales lxviii VIII . The Prologue Ixxiv IX . The Knight's Tale lxxix THE PROLOGUE THE KNIGHT'S TALE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY VOCABULARY I 29 ΙΟΙ 168 169 • 130 ix INTRODUCTION . I. CHAUCER'S POSITION IN THE HISTORY.
... Canterbury Tales lxviii VIII . The Prologue Ixxiv IX . The Knight's Tale lxxix THE PROLOGUE THE KNIGHT'S TALE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY VOCABULARY I 29 ΙΟΙ 168 169 • 130 ix INTRODUCTION . I. CHAUCER'S POSITION IN THE HISTORY.
Page xviii
... Canterbury , along a beaten track , to the jingling of bells and the cadence of many a worldly tale . The few quotations from the great Italian to be met with here and there do not affect the spirit of their context , the comparison ...
... Canterbury , along a beaten track , to the jingling of bells and the cadence of many a worldly tale . The few quotations from the great Italian to be met with here and there do not affect the spirit of their context , the comparison ...
Page xix
... Canterbury Tales from Boccaccio may be dismissed . If he must needs have borrowed , other sources might be suggested . But there is no inherent impossibility in the hypothesis that Chaucer may , for once , have been ' original ...
... Canterbury Tales from Boccaccio may be dismissed . If he must needs have borrowed , other sources might be suggested . But there is no inherent impossibility in the hypothesis that Chaucer may , for once , have been ' original ...
Page xxvii
... Canterbury , and thus , indirectly at least , it may have contributed to the creation of the Canterbury Tales ( cf. p . xxxviii ) . Chaucer sat in Parliament as Knight for the Shire of Kent during one month of the year 1386 , but the ...
... Canterbury , and thus , indirectly at least , it may have contributed to the creation of the Canterbury Tales ( cf. p . xxxviii ) . Chaucer sat in Parliament as Knight for the Shire of Kent during one month of the year 1386 , but the ...
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... Canterbury Tales . The main point for us at the moment is that in this Prologue he undoubtedly claims as his The Legende of Good Women , and thereby vouches for the list of works enumerated in the Prologue to that poem . The value of ...
... Canterbury Tales . The main point for us at the moment is that in this Prologue he undoubtedly claims as his The Legende of Good Women , and thereby vouches for the list of works enumerated in the Prologue to that poem . The value of ...
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Page 2 - Bifil that in that seson on a day. In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage.
Page 24 - Why that assembled was this compaignye In Southwerk, at this gentil hostelrye, That highte the Tabard, faste by the Belle.
Page 166 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 11 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page lxvii - Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Page 1 - The tendre croppes. and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye. That slepen al the nyght with open ye (So priketh hem nature in hir corages). — Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes.
Page lxxxvii - I have just occasion to complain of them, who because they understand Chaucer, would deprive the greater part of their countrymen of the same advantage, and hoard him up, as misers do their grandam gold, only to look on it themselves, and hinder others from making use of it. In sum, I seriously protest, that no man ever had, or can have, a greater veneration for Chaucer than myself. I have translated some part of his works, only that I might perpetuate his memory, or at least refresh it, amongst...
Page 16 - In al the parisshe wif ne was ther noon That to the offrynge bifore hire sholde goon; And if ther dide, certeyn so wrooth was she, That she was out of alle charitee. Hir coverchiefs...
Page 4 - With lokkes crulle as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe...
Page 2 - Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche...