The works of Geoffrey ChaucerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1904 - 771 pàgines |
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... thoughts and reflections culled wherever he could find them . His prose translation of Boethius and his study of ... thought , relieved ever and anon with subtle touches of humour , are the striking achievements of his middle period ...
... thoughts and reflections culled wherever he could find them . His prose translation of Boethius and his study of ... thought , relieved ever and anon with subtle touches of humour , are the striking achievements of his middle period ...
Pàgina 11
... Thought , ' at the opening of the second book , was suggested by the Inferno ( ii . 7-9 ) , the invocation in the third book by that at the beginning of the Paradiso ( i . 13-27 ) . The philosophy , however , is not Dante's , but rather ...
... Thought , ' at the opening of the second book , was suggested by the Inferno ( ii . 7-9 ) , the invocation in the third book by that at the beginning of the Paradiso ( i . 13-27 ) . The philosophy , however , is not Dante's , but rather ...
Pàgina 12
... thought it was noght worth to make it wys , And graunted hym withouten moore avys , And bad him seye his verdit , as hym leste . ' Lordynges , ' quod he , ' now herkneth for the beste ; But taak it nought , I prey yow , in desdeyn ...
... thought it was noght worth to make it wys , And graunted hym withouten moore avys , And bad him seye his verdit , as hym leste . ' Lordynges , ' quod he , ' now herkneth for the beste ; But taak it nought , I prey yow , in desdeyn ...
Pàgina 31
... thought , and seest what harmės that I feele , Considere al this and rewe upon my soore As wisly as I shal for evermoore , Emforth my myght , thy trewe servant be , And holden werre alwey with chastitee ; That make I myn avow , so ye me ...
... thought , and seest what harmės that I feele , Considere al this and rewe upon my soore As wisly as I shal for evermoore , Emforth my myght , thy trewe servant be , And holden werre alwey with chastitee ; That make I myn avow , so ye me ...
Pàgina 80
... thought he wax al reed . This faire wyf gan for to shake hir heed , And seyde thus : ' Ye , God woot al , ' quod she , ' Nay , cosyn myn , it stant nat so with me , For by that God that yaf me soule and lyf , In al the reawme of France ...
... thought he wax al reed . This faire wyf gan for to shake hir heed , And seyde thus : ' Ye , God woot al , ' quod she , ' Nay , cosyn myn , it stant nat so with me , For by that God that yaf me soule and lyf , In al the reawme of France ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 11 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Pàgina 120 - Tragedie is to seyn, a certeyn storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of hym that stood in greet prosperitee And is yfallen out of heigh degree Into myserie, and endeth wrecchedly, And they ben versified communely Of six feet, which men clepen exametron.
Pàgina 141 - Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees, And necligent, and truste on flaterye. But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee, good men.
Pàgina 11 - And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere ; For un-to swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat, as by his facultee, To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce. It is nat honest, it may nat avaunce For to delen with no swich poraille, But al with riche and sellers of vitaille.
Pàgina 170 - allas! nay, nay! It wol nat been amended nevere mo. Thou art so loothly, and so oold also, And therto comen of so lough a kynde, That litel wonder is thogh I walwe and wynde. So wolde God myn herte wolde breste!" "Is this," quod she, "the cause of youre unreste?" "Ye, certeinly,
Pàgina 11 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte ; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte ; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do...
Pàgina 11 - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Pàgina 152 - This olde man gan loke in his visage, And seyde thus, "for I ne can nat finde A man, though that I walked in-to Inde, Neither in citee nor in no village, That wolde chaunge his youthe for myn age; And therfore moot I han myn age stille, As longe time as it is goddes wille.
Pàgina 11 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Pàgina 11 - Everich, for the wisdom that he kan, Was shaply for to been an alderman. For catel hadde they y-nogh and rente, And eek hir wyves wolde it wel assente; And elles certeyn were they to blame. 375 It is ful fair to been y-cleped "madame," And goon to vigilies al bifore, And have a mantel roialliche y-bore.