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 xviii
... ( perhaps 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 Visage1 without Painting ; so that , considered with reference to metre , this Tale may be ...
... ( perhaps 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 Visage1 without Painting ; so that , considered with reference to metre , this Tale may be ...
Pàgina xxii
... Perhaps the real occasion of the Ballad may have been what is said to have hap- pened at Trent , in 1475 , to a boy called Simon . The Cardinal Hadrian , about fifty years after , mentioning the Rocks of Trent , adds — “ quo Iudæi ob ...
... Perhaps the real occasion of the Ballad may have been what is said to have hap- pened at Trent , in 1475 , to a boy called Simon . The Cardinal Hadrian , about fifty years after , mentioning the Rocks of Trent , adds — “ quo Iudæi ob ...
Pàgina xxiii
... perhaps , the meanness of their language and ver- sification . It is full of phrases taken from Isumbras , Li Beaus Desconus , and other Romances in the same style , which are still extant . ... For the more complete reprobation of this ...
... perhaps , the meanness of their language and ver- sification . It is full of phrases taken from Isumbras , Li Beaus Desconus , and other Romances in the same style , which are still extant . ... For the more complete reprobation of this ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... perhaps , if any , of the stories are the invention of Chaucer . I have already spoken at large of the Knight's Tale , one of our author's noblest compositions . That of the Canterbury Tales which deserves the next place , as written in ...
... perhaps , if any , of the stories are the invention of Chaucer . I have already spoken at large of the Knight's Tale , one of our author's noblest compositions . That of the Canterbury Tales which deserves the next place , as written in ...
Pàgina xxxvii
... perhaps of King Arthur , fraught with Oriental fancy . From the same sources came a like fiction of Camoens in the Lusiad ( canto x ) , where a globe is shown to Vasco de Gama , representing the universal fabric or system of the world ...
... perhaps of King Arthur , fraught with Oriental fancy . From the same sources came a like fiction of Camoens in the Lusiad ( canto x ) , where a globe is shown to Vasco de Gama , representing the universal fabric or system of the world ...
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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.