The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt, Volume 1Pickering, 1830 - 122 pages |
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... probably to be derived , according to the hypothesis , which has been more fully explained in the ESSAY , & c . Part the second , that the Norman- Saxon dialect , in which Chaucer wrote , was almost * The neglect of this precaution ...
... probably to be derived , according to the hypothesis , which has been more fully explained in the ESSAY , & c . Part the second , that the Norman- Saxon dialect , in which Chaucer wrote , was almost * The neglect of this precaution ...
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... probably took the first Ms. that he could procure to print from , and it happened unluckily to be one of the worst in all respects that he could possibly have met with . The very few copies of this Edition , which are now remaining ( a ) ...
... probably took the first Ms. that he could procure to print from , and it happened unluckily to be one of the worst in all respects that he could possibly have met with . The very few copies of this Edition , which are now remaining ( a ) ...
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... probably not regret , that he did not do more towards correcting the text of Chaucer . In this state the Canterbury Tales remained ( m ) till the edition undertaken by Mr. Urry , which was published , some years after his death , in ...
... probably not regret , that he did not do more towards correcting the text of Chaucer . In this state the Canterbury Tales remained ( m ) till the edition undertaken by Mr. Urry , which was published , some years after his death , in ...
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... probably a corruption of Vassalettus , the diminutive of Vassallus . Hence this title was also given ( not as a name of service ) to young men of the highest quality , before they were knighted . Il ot un fiz de sa mulier , Ki neit pas ...
... probably a corruption of Vassalettus , the diminutive of Vassallus . Hence this title was also given ( not as a name of service ) to young men of the highest quality , before they were knighted . Il ot un fiz de sa mulier , Ki neit pas ...
Page xxxii
... there , and do and execute all things pertaining to the said office in his own proper person and not by his substitute , ” — ' —we shall probably be of From this time we find frequent mention of him in xxxii APPENDIX TO THE PREFACE .
... there , and do and execute all things pertaining to the said office in his own proper person and not by his substitute , ” — ' —we shall probably be of From this time we find frequent mention of him in xxxii APPENDIX TO THE PREFACE .
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Page 11 - Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
Page 10 - A CLERK ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake; But loked holwe, and therto soberly.
Page 19 - That first he wrought, and afterward he taught. Out of the gospel he the wordes caught, And this figure he added yet therto, That if gold ruste, what shuld iren do ? For if a preest be foule, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust...
Page 19 - So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne.
Page 21 - His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Page 11 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 28 - Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he, never so rudely and so large...
Page 76 - In which ther wonneth neyther man ne best, With knotty knarry barrein trees old Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough, As though a storme shuld bresten every bough : And dounward from an hill under a bent, Ther stood the temple of Mars armipotent, Wrought all of burned stele, of which th* entree Was longe and streite, and gastly for to see.
Page 24 - Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn. A fewe termes hadde he, two or three, That he had lerned out of som decree ; No wonder is, he herde it al the day ; And eek ye knowen wel, how that a jay Can clepen ' Watte,' as well as can the pope. But who-so coude in other thing him grope, Thanne hadde he spent al his philosophye ; Ay ' Questio quid iuris
Page lx - ... in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses, which are lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.