The prioresses tale, Sire Thopas, the monkes tale, the clerkes tale, the squieres tale, for the Canterbury talesClarendon Press, 1874 - 302 pàgines |
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Pàgina xix
... English poet before him ever dreamt of such a metre , and it has been a source of wonder , for hundreds of years , whence he derived it . To say that it was derived from the French ten - syllable verse is not a complete solution of the ...
... English poet before him ever dreamt of such a metre , and it has been a source of wonder , for hundreds of years , whence he derived it . To say that it was derived from the French ten - syllable verse is not a complete solution of the ...
Pàgina xx
... English was made by Chaucer , in his Legend of Good Women , commenced , according to Professor Ten Brink , in the year 1385 ( Furnivall's Trial Forewords , p . 111 ) . Surely this date is one of considerable importance ; for we at once ...
... English was made by Chaucer , in his Legend of Good Women , commenced , according to Professor Ten Brink , in the year 1385 ( Furnivall's Trial Forewords , p . 111 ) . Surely this date is one of considerable importance ; for we at once ...
Pàgina xxiii
... English Writers , ii . 169 . The Prioress's End - link . This passage , like the other End- links and Prologues in rimed couplets , evidently belongs to the late period ; we recognise here some of the author's best work . Sir Thopas ...
... English Writers , ii . 169 . The Prioress's End - link . This passage , like the other End- links and Prologues in rimed couplets , evidently belongs to the late period ; we recognise here some of the author's best work . Sir Thopas ...
Pàgina xxxi
... English Literature . There is a ballad called ' Patient Grissell , ' in Percy's Folio MS . , ed . Hales and Furnivall , iii . 421 ; and there is one by Thomas Deloney in Professor Child's English and Scottish Ballads , vol . iv ...
... English Literature . There is a ballad called ' Patient Grissell , ' in Percy's Folio MS . , ed . Hales and Furnivall , iii . 421 ; and there is one by Thomas Deloney in Professor Child's English and Scottish Ballads , vol . iv ...
Pàgina xxxii
... English Poetry , took much pains 1 Only a few hours after writing this sentence , I found that Mr. Keightley , in his Tales and Popular Fictions , published in 1834 , at p . 76 , distinctly derives Chaucer's Tale from the Travels of ...
... English Poetry , took much pains 1 Only a few hours after writing this sentence , I found that Mr. Keightley , in his Tales and Popular Fictions , published in 1834 , at p . 76 , distinctly derives Chaucer's Tale from the Travels of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 181 - 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 145 - Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesus. Sancta Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
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 176 - 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 182 - 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 179 - 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 99 - For if that they were put to swiche assayes, The gold of hem hath now so badde alayes With bras, that thogh the coyne be fair at ye, It wolde rather breste a-two than plye.
Pàgina 187 - 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.