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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Pàgina ix
... writing it , he had in some measure arranged a part of his materials . His design was to make a collection of tales which he had previously written , to write more new tales to go with these , and to unite them all into a series by ...
... writing it , he had in some measure arranged a part of his materials . His design was to make a collection of tales which he had previously written , to write more new tales to go with these , and to unite them all into a series by ...
Pàgina xv
... written even by so great a poet ; indeed , the plot bears con- siderable resemblance to that of the favourite play known to us all by the title of As You Like It . But I cannot but protest against the stupidity of the botcher whose hand ...
... written even by so great a poet ; indeed , the plot bears con- siderable resemblance to that of the favourite play known to us all by the title of As You Like It . But I cannot but protest against the stupidity of the botcher whose hand ...
Pàgina xvi
... written from be- ginning to end . In the first instance Chaucer took a good deal of it from Boccaccio's Teseide ... writing his Troilus1 , in which he follows the same author , and 1 Several lines are common to Troilus and to the ...
... written from be- ginning to end . In the first instance Chaucer took a good deal of it from Boccaccio's Teseide ... writing his Troilus1 , in which he follows the same author , and 1 Several lines are common to Troilus and to the ...
Pàgina xvii
... writing the Knight's Tale , a poem also in the seven - line stanza , which has been preserved under the title ' Of Queen Annelida and False Arcite . ' In this . poem , after three introductory stanzas , he quotes three lines from ...
... writing the Knight's Tale , a poem also in the seven - line stanza , which has been preserved under the title ' Of Queen Annelida and False Arcite . ' In this . poem , after three introductory stanzas , he quotes three lines from ...
Pàgina xviii
... written before A.D. 1369 ) , and in some of Chaucer's latest but very short poems , such as the Envoy to Bukton , and the Ballad of the Visage 2 without Painting ; so that , considered with reference to metre , this Tale may be of any ...
... written before A.D. 1369 ) , and in some of Chaucer's latest but very short poems , such as the Envoy to Bukton , and the Ballad of the Visage 2 without Painting ; so that , considered with reference to metre , this Tale may be of any ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 143 - 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 190 - 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 186 - 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 7 - Is in this large world y-sprad! — quod she: — For noght only thy laude precious Parfourned is by men of dignitee, But by the mouth of children thy bountee Parfourned is, for on the brest soukinge Som tyme shewen they thyn heryinge.
Pàgina 186 - 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 183 - 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 - 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 137 - All the brethren of the poor do hate him; how much more do his friends go far from, him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Pàgina 58 - 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 155 - Genoa and those parts; these were commonly called galley men, as men that came up in the galleys brought up wines and other merchandises, which they landed in Thames street, at a place called Galley key; they had a certain coin of silver amongst themselves, which were halfpence of Genoa, and were called Galley halfpence; these halfpence were forbidden in the I3th of Henry IV., and again by parliament in the 4th of Henry V.