The prioresses tale, Sire Thopas, The monkes tale, The clerkes tale, The squieres tale, ed. by W.W. Skeat1877 |
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Pàgina xvi
... printed editions , but in none of the MSS . , viz . the Ploughman's Tale . This is admittedly spurious , in the sense that it is not Chaucer's ; but it is a remarkable poem in its way . The author never intended it for an imitation of ...
... printed editions , but in none of the MSS . , viz . the Ploughman's Tale . This is admittedly spurious , in the sense that it is not Chaucer's ; but it is a remarkable poem in its way . The author never intended it for an imitation of ...
Pàgina xx
... printed in the present volume . Man - of - Law Head - link . This is an important passage , as it gives the date ( April 18 ) of one of the days of the pil- grimage , and a list of the Tales which Chaucer meant to include in his Legend ...
... printed in the present volume . Man - of - Law Head - link . This is an important passage , as it gives the date ( April 18 ) of one of the days of the pil- grimage , and a list of the Tales which Chaucer meant to include in his Legend ...
Pàgina xxi
... printed in 1485 , the Legend of Alphonsus is said to have been composed in 1459 , and it is stated to be the work of a Minorite friar , whose name , accord- ing to Hain and others , was Alphonsus a Spina . The story is , that a widow ...
... printed in 1485 , the Legend of Alphonsus is said to have been composed in 1459 , and it is stated to be the work of a Minorite friar , whose name , accord- ing to Hain and others , was Alphonsus a Spina . The story is , that a widow ...
Pàgina xxv
... 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 to hear rather a merry and lively story from the jovial and corpulent Monk , and rallies ...
... 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 to hear rather a merry and lively story from the jovial and corpulent Monk , and rallies ...
Pàgina xxviii
... is of no great merit . I say ' recollections ' advisedly ; see note to B 3293 . 2 Printed Chauncer ' in the old edition which I here follow . The original sources of the various tragedies are sufficiently indicated xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... is of no great merit . I say ' recollections ' advisedly ; see note to B 3293 . 2 Printed Chauncer ' in the old edition which I here follow . The original sources of the various tragedies are sufficiently indicated xxviii INTRODUCTION .
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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.