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... tales of travelers , fable , or allegory ; but whatever he took from others as a basis of his literary work he ennobled ... Tale of the Wyf of Bathe , " which are supposed by some to have been borrowed by Chaucer from Gower , were common ...
... tales of travelers , fable , or allegory ; but whatever he took from others as a basis of his literary work he ennobled ... Tale of the Wyf of Bathe , " which are supposed by some to have been borrowed by Chaucer from Gower , were common ...
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... Tales . " Moreover , Chaucer had established his standing as a great and original national poet long before Gower had pub- lished his first English poem ; and it is more likely that the latter profited by imitating , as well as he could ...
... Tales . " Moreover , Chaucer had established his standing as a great and original national poet long before Gower had pub- lished his first English poem ; and it is more likely that the latter profited by imitating , as well as he could ...
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... suddenly and utterly with Chaucer as the hope and glory of his age . The hundred years that follow the brief sun- shine of Crécy and the ' Canterbury Tales ' are years of the deepest gloom ; no age of our history is so INTRODUCTION . 13.
... suddenly and utterly with Chaucer as the hope and glory of his age . The hundred years that follow the brief sun- shine of Crécy and the ' Canterbury Tales ' are years of the deepest gloom ; no age of our history is so INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... Tales " form an unfinished work . In fact , the plan as originally laid out in the Prologue is beyond the compass of any merely human endeavor . We have no means of knowing positively at what different times the several tales were ...
... Tales " form an unfinished work . In fact , the plan as originally laid out in the Prologue is beyond the compass of any merely human endeavor . We have no means of knowing positively at what different times the several tales were ...
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... tale pleased best should receive a supper at the common cost . " After a brief introduction , filled with the most cheerful images of spring , the season of the pilgrimage , the poet com- mences the narrative with a description of the ...
... tale pleased best should receive a supper at the common cost . " After a brief introduction , filled with the most cheerful images of spring , the season of the pilgrimage , the poet com- mences the narrative with a description of the ...
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Page 41 - That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversitee ful pacient; And swich he was y-preved ofte sythes.
Page 125 - Greet was th'effect, and heigh was his entente; Wei wiste he why, and what ther-of he mente; For with that faire cheyne of love he bond The fyr, the eyr, the water, and the lond In certeyn boundes, that they may nat flee; That same prince and that moevere...
Page 38 - But of his craft to rekene wel his tydes, His stremes and his daungers him bisydes, His herberwe and his mone, his lodemenage, Ther nas noon swich from Hulle to Cartage.
Page 28 - And to ben holden digne of reverence. But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.
Page 24 - But natheles, whyl I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree ; 40 And eek in what array that they were inne : And at a knight than wol I first biginne.
Page 31 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 41 - This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte...
Page 49 - Or feyne thing, or fynde wordes newe. He may nat spare, al-thogh he were his brother; He moot as wel seye o word as another. Crist spak him-self ful brode in holy writ, And wel ye woot, no vileinye is it. 740 Eek Plato seith, who-so that can him rede, The wordes mote be cosin to the dede.9 Also I prey yow to foryeve it me, Al...
Page 27 - In hope to stonden in his lady grace. Embrouded was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures, whyte and rede. Singinge he was, or floytinge, al the day ; He was as fresh as is the month of May.
Page 50 - And of manhod him lakkede right naught. Eek therto he was right a mery man, And after soper pleyen he bigan, And spak of mirthe amonges othere thinges, Whan that we hadde maad our rekeninges...