The Prioresses Tale: Sir Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, the Squieres Tale from the Canterbury TalesClarendon Press, 1880 - 316 pàgines |
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The Prioresses Tale, Sire Thopas, The Monkes Tale, The Clerkes Tale, The ... Geoffrey Chaucer Visualització completa - 1883 |
The Prioresses Tale, Sir Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, the ... Geoffrey Chaucer Visualització completa - 1880 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 181 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep...
Pàgina 145 - La tua benignità non pur soccorre • A chi dimanda, ma molte fiate Liberamente al dimandar precorre. In te misericordia, in te pietate In te magnificenza, in te s'aduna Quantunque in creatura è di bontate.
Pàgina 194 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Pàgina 188 - Now had they waken'd; and the hour drew near When they were wont to bring us food; the mind Of each misgave him through his dream, and I Heard at its outlet underneath lock'd up The horrible tower : whence, uttering not a word, I look'd upon the visage of my sons.
Pàgina 9 - Parfourned is by men of dignitee, But by the mouth of children thy bountee Parfourned is, for on the brest soukynge Somtyme shewen they thyn heriynge.
Pàgina 185 - HENRY and King Pedro clasping, Hold in straining arms each other; Tugging hard, and closely grasping, Brother proves his strength with brother Harmless pastime, sport fraternal, Blends not thus their limbs in strife : Either aims, with rage infernal, Naked dagger, sharpened knife.
Pàgina 188 - These weeds of miserable flesh we wear; And do thou strip them off from us again.' Then, not to make them sadder, I kept down My spirit in stillness. That day and the next We all were silent. Ah, obdurate earth!
Pàgina 190 - Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.
Pàgina 60 - I wol yow telle a tale which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk, As preved by his wordes and his werk. He is now deed and nayled in his cheste, I prey to god so yeve his soule reste.
Pàgina 11 - And eek also, wher-as he saugh thimage Of Cristes moder, had he in usage, As him was taught, to knele adoun and seye His Ave Marie as he goth by the weye.