The Prioresses Tale, Sire Thopas, The Monkes Tale, The Clerkes Tale, The Squieres Tale, from the Canterbury TalesClarendon Press, 1883 - 316 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
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 145 - Donna, se' tanto grande e tanto vali, che qual vuol grazia ed a te non ricorre, sua disianza vuol volar sanz'ali. La tua benignità non pur soccorre a chi domanda, 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 12 - His felaw, which that elder was than he, Answerde him thus: 'this song, I have herd seye, Was maked of our blisful lady free, Hir to salue, and eek hir for to preye To been our help and socour whan we deye. I can no more expounde in this matere; I lerne song, I can but smal grammere.
Pàgina 10 - That kan unnethes any word expresse, Right so fare I; and therfore I yow preye, Gydeth my song that I shal of yow seye.
Pàgina 164 - That I will make no vain carpinge Of dedes of armys ne of amours, As dus mynstrelles and jestours, That makys carpinge in many a place Of Octoviane and Isembrase, And of many other jestes, And namely, whan they come to festes...
Pàgina 100 - Ye archiwyves, stondeth at defense, Syn ye be strong as is a greet camaille. Ne suffreth nat that men yow doon offense, And sklendre wyves, fieble as in bataille, Beth egre as is a tygre yond in Ynde, Ay clappeth as a mille, I yow consaille.
Pàgina 14 - O grete God, that parfournest thy laude By mouth of innocents, lo heer thy might! This gemme of chastitee, this emeraude, And eek of martirdom the ruby bright, Ther he with throte y-corven lay upright He Alma redemptoris gan to singe So loude that al the place gan to ringe.
Pàgina 157 - In wodde to chase the wild dere, And in the feld to ryde a stede, That all men had joy of his dede.
Pàgina 181 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Pàgina 152 - There are several ballads in French and English, on the subject of Hugh of Lincoln, which were collected by MF Michel, and published at Paris in 1834, with the title—' Hugues de Lincoln, Recueil de Ballades- Anglo-Normandes et Ecossoises relatives au Meurtre de cet Enfant.