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 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
... write a single line of it . This is the more likely because the tale is a capital one in itself , well worthy of having been re- written even by so great a poet ; indeed , the plot bears con- siderable resemblance to that of the ...
... write a single line of it . This is the more likely because the tale is a capital one in itself , well worthy of having been re- written even by so great a poet ; indeed , the plot bears con- siderable resemblance to that of the ...
Pàgina xvi
... writing his Troilus ' , in which he follows the same author , and he would naturally employ the seven - line stanza . But this is not all , for it is obvious upon comparison ( though I do not remember to have seen it pointed out before ) ...
... writing his Troilus ' , in which he follows the same author , and he would naturally employ the seven - line stanza . But this is not all , for it is obvious upon comparison ( though I do not remember to have seen it pointed out before ) ...
Pàgina xix
... writer whom Chaucer is known to have imitated1 , and who died in 1377. In the edition of Machault's poems edited by Tarbé , Reims and Paris , 1849 , p . 89 , there is a poem of exactly this character , of no great length , but ...
... writer whom Chaucer is known to have imitated1 , and who died in 1377. In the edition of Machault's poems edited by Tarbé , Reims and Paris , 1849 , p . 89 , there is a poem of exactly this character , of no great length , but ...
Pàgina xx
... write one , only fortunately I have one by me which will do very well . ' The ' Merchant ' who ' taught ' Chaucer the Man of Law's Tale was his industrious younger self ' . 1 For further notes , see Specimens of English , Part II , ed ...
... write one , only fortunately I have one by me which will do very well . ' The ' Merchant ' who ' taught ' Chaucer the Man of Law's Tale was his industrious younger self ' . 1 For further notes , see Specimens of English , Part II , ed ...
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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.