The prioresses tale, Sire Thopas, The monkes tale, The clerkes tale, The squieres tale, ed. by W.W. Skeat1877 |
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Pàgina vii
... reader to the edition of Chaucer's Prologue , Knightes Tale , & c . , by Dr. Morris , in the Clarendon Press Series ; a volume to which I have frequently had occasion to refer in the Notes and Glossary . But it is worth while to remark ...
... reader to the edition of Chaucer's Prologue , Knightes Tale , & c . , by Dr. Morris , in the Clarendon Press Series ; a volume to which I have frequently had occasion to refer in the Notes and Glossary . But it is worth while to remark ...
Pàgina x
... reader , but cer- tainly not founded upon truth . Fortunately , too , the matter is put beyond argument by some incidental remarks . In the first Group , or Group A , occurs the line- ' Lo Depeford , and it is half - wey pryme'— i.e. it ...
... reader , but cer- tainly not founded upon truth . Fortunately , too , the matter is put beyond argument by some incidental remarks . In the first Group , or Group A , occurs the line- ' Lo Depeford , and it is half - wey pryme'— i.e. it ...
Pàgina xxiv
... readers will be apt to regret that he did not rather give us the remainder of Sire Thopas . ' Sir Thopas is admittedly a burlesque , and several of the passages imitated are quoted in the Notes ; but I cannot quite resist the suspicion ...
... readers will be apt to regret that he did not rather give us the remainder of Sire Thopas . ' Sir Thopas is admittedly a burlesque , and several of the passages imitated are quoted in the Notes ; but I cannot quite resist the suspicion ...
Pàgina xxvi
... order to show the chronological order , which is that of the letters a , b , c , d , e , f . * The group ( ƒ ) has nothing to do with ( e ) ; as will appear . must strike the most careless reader ; and it is xxvi INTRODUCTION .
... order to show the chronological order , which is that of the letters a , b , c , d , e , f . * The group ( ƒ ) has nothing to do with ( e ) ; as will appear . must strike the most careless reader ; and it is xxvi INTRODUCTION .
Pàgina xxvii
Geoffrey Chaucer Walter William Skeat. must strike the most careless reader ; and it is easy to see that this group ( ƒ ) was an afterthought , being a piece added at the period of revision . So much we can tell from internal evidence ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Walter William Skeat. must strike the most careless reader ; and it is easy to see that this group ( ƒ ) was an afterthought , being a piece added at the period of revision . So much we can tell from internal evidence ...
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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.