The prioresses tale, Sire Thopas, The monkes tale, The clerkes tale, The squieres tale, ed. by W.W. Skeat1877 |
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Pàgina x
... miles , took two days for the journey . Twenty miles a day was fast . We may allow the pilgrims about fifteen miles a day . See Chambers ' Book of Days , ii . 228 . in the morning in Group B , 1. 14 , X INTRODUCTION .
... miles , took two days for the journey . Twenty miles a day was fast . We may allow the pilgrims about fifteen miles a day . See Chambers ' Book of Days , ii . 228 . in the morning in Group B , 1. 14 , X INTRODUCTION .
Pàgina xix
... Book of the Duchess as compared with some from Machault's Remède de Fortune in Furnivall's Trial Forewords p . 47 , where he quotes from Étude sur G. Chaucer , by M. Sandras , p . 290 . The obligations to the Remède de Fortune are ...
... Book of the Duchess as compared with some from Machault's Remède de Fortune in Furnivall's Trial Forewords p . 47 , where he quotes from Étude sur G. Chaucer , by M. Sandras , p . 290 . The obligations to the Remède de Fortune are ...
Pàgina xxv
... book de Casibus virorum illustrium , the title of which is actually retained in the rubric printed at p . 32 . The manner in which the poet contrives to assign this string of tragedies to the monk is highly ingenious . The Host expects ...
... book de Casibus virorum illustrium , the title of which is actually retained in the rubric printed at p . 32 . The manner in which the poet contrives to assign this string of tragedies to the monk is highly ingenious . The Host expects ...
Pàgina xxvi
... book of Maccabees , and therefore come next after the tragedy of Ho- lofernes , which belongs to the book of Judith . Here , again , Alexander should , in strictness , precede Antiochus , but this consideration is overridden by the ...
... book of Maccabees , and therefore come next after the tragedy of Ho- lofernes , which belongs to the book of Judith . Here , again , Alexander should , in strictness , precede Antiochus , but this consideration is overridden by the ...
Pàgina xxviii
... book of Maccabees , leads him on to write the tragedy of Caesar ; then he tires of his work , and breaks off . Returning to it for the purpose of filling up his great work , he adds a few modern instances , ' mixes up the order of tales ...
... book of Maccabees , leads him on to write the tragedy of Caesar ; then he tires of his work , and breaks off . Returning to it for the purpose of filling up his great work , he adds a few modern instances , ' mixes up the order of tales ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 194 - 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 146 - 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 145 - 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 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 190 - 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 60 - 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 xlvii - And Solomon was David's heir; and he said, O men, we have been taught the speech of birds, and have had all things bestowed on us ; this is manifest excellence.
Pàgina 31 - Tragedie is to seyn a certeyn storie, As olde bokes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in greet prosperitee 3165 And is y-fallen out of heigh degree Into miserie, and endeth wrecchedly.
Pàgina xxxiii - Tale. The imagination of this story consists in Arabian fiction engrafted on Gothic chivalry. Nor is this Arabian fiction purely the sport of arbitrary fancy : it is in great measure founded on Arabian learning. Cambuscan, a King of Tartary, celebrates his birthday festival in the hall of his palace at Sana with the most royal magnificence.