The Prologue and the Knight's TaleUniversity Press, 1908 - 229 pages |
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... terms , but endured that most sincere form of all flattery — imitation . So marked , indeed , is the intention to emulate on the part of certain Scots poets that they have collectively , and not inaptly , been styled the Scots ...
... terms , but endured that most sincere form of all flattery — imitation . So marked , indeed , is the intention to emulate on the part of certain Scots poets that they have collectively , and not inaptly , been styled the Scots ...
Page xxxiii
... term . Chaucer's ' Words to Adam Scrivener ' seem to imply that Boece and Troilus were in hand at one and the same time . ( 2 ) The topical nature of the subject : -The Book of the Duchesse is an elegy on the death of Blanche of Castile ...
... term . Chaucer's ' Words to Adam Scrivener ' seem to imply that Boece and Troilus were in hand at one and the same time . ( 2 ) The topical nature of the subject : -The Book of the Duchesse is an elegy on the death of Blanche of Castile ...
Page 104
... term is ' that quality of the mind which shows itself in facing danger , ' hence bravery , boldness . Cf. Murray , N. E. D. For the contents of the bird's song , and the idea expressed in this line , cf. Parlement of Foules , 1. 680 ff ...
... term is ' that quality of the mind which shows itself in facing danger , ' hence bravery , boldness . Cf. Murray , N. E. D. For the contents of the bird's song , and the idea expressed in this line , cf. Parlement of Foules , 1. 680 ff ...
Page 107
... term it , is of a jacket or sleeveless coat , whole before , winged at the shoulders , a stately garment of old time , commonly worn of noblemen and others , both at home and abroad in the wars , but then ( to wit in the wars ) their ...
... term it , is of a jacket or sleeveless coat , whole before , winged at the shoulders , a stately garment of old time , commonly worn of noblemen and others , both at home and abroad in the wars , but then ( to wit in the wars ) their ...
Page 111
... term squire denotes a young knight , not old enough , or having too few vassals , to display his own banner , and therefore in the service of another , here of his own father . The term ' bacheler ' in the following line is in this ...
... term squire denotes a young knight , not old enough , or having too few vassals , to display his own banner , and therefore in the service of another , here of his own father . The term ' bacheler ' in the following line is in this ...
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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...