The Legend of Good WomenClarendon Press, 1889 - 229 pàgines |
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Pàgina x
... lady bright of hewe And every gentil womman , what she be , That , al be that Criseyde was untrewe , That for that gilt she be not wroth with me . Ye may her gilt in otheres bokes see , And gladlier I wol wryten , if yow leste , [ Of ] ...
... lady bright of hewe And every gentil womman , what she be , That , al be that Criseyde was untrewe , That for that gilt she be not wroth with me . Ye may her gilt in otheres bokes see , And gladlier I wol wryten , if yow leste , [ Of ] ...
Pàgina xv
... lady sovereign , ' and his earthly god , ' cannot be mistaken . The reference is obviously to his sovereign lady the queen ; and the expression ' earthly god ' is made clear by the declaration ( in B. 387 ) that kings are as demi - gods ...
... lady sovereign , ' and his earthly god , ' cannot be mistaken . The reference is obviously to his sovereign lady the queen ; and the expression ' earthly god ' is made clear by the declaration ( in B. 387 ) that kings are as demi - gods ...
Pàgina xvi
... lady cometh . ' The reason is twofold . The poet wishes to suppress the name of Alcestis for the present , in order to introduce it as a surprise towards the end ( B. 518 ) 1 ; and secondly , the words ' My lady cometh ' are used as ...
... lady cometh . ' The reason is twofold . The poet wishes to suppress the name of Alcestis for the present , in order to introduce it as a surprise towards the end ( B. 518 ) 1 ; and secondly , the words ' My lady cometh ' are used as ...
Pàgina xvii
... ladies , besides Alcestis , into his Legend ; and tells him that he may choose his own metre ( B. 562 ) . Again , in B. 568-577 , he practically stipulates that he is only to tell the more interesting part of each story , and to leave ...
... ladies , besides Alcestis , into his Legend ; and tells him that he may choose his own metre ( B. 562 ) . Again , in B. 568-577 , he practically stipulates that he is only to tell the more interesting part of each story , and to leave ...
Pàgina xix
... ladies , and to those men- tioned in his Balade . There is no reason for supposing that he ever wrote complete tales about Deianira , Hermione , Hero , Helen , Briseis , Laodamia , or Penelope , any more than he did about Alcestis . But ...
... ladies , and to those men- tioned in his Balade . There is no reason for supposing that he ever wrote complete tales about Deianira , Hermione , Hero , Helen , Briseis , Laodamia , or Penelope , any more than he did about Alcestis . But ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina v - Women," long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.
Pàgina 23 - Hyde ye your trouthe of love and your renoun; And thou, Tisbe, that hast of love swich peyne; My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne.
Pàgina 6 - I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon That fro my bokes maketh me to goon...
Pàgina 9 - Of makynge ropen *, and lad awey the corn ; And I come after, glenyng here and there, And am ful glad yf I may fynde an ere Of any goodly word that ye han left. And thogh it happen me rehercen eft That ye han in your fresshe songes sayd, Forbereth me, and beth not evil apayd5, Syn that ye see I do yt in the honour Of love, and eke in service of the flour, Whom that I serve as I have wit or myght.
Pàgina 153 - So she furnished herself with a world of gifts, store of gold and silver, and of riches and other sumptuous ornaments, as is credible enough she might bring from so great a house, and from so wealthy and rich a realm as Egypt was. But yet she carried nothing with her wherein she trusted more than in...
Pàgina 147 - Teseide, i. 2) he speaks of it as ' — una storia antica, Tanto negli anni riposta e nascosa, Che Latino autor non par ne dica, Per quel ch'io senta, in libro alcuna cosa.
Pàgina 155 - Bruce (viii. 351, ix. 263, 269, xvii. 104, 575), with the sense ' fled in different directions,' or ' fled away.' Cf. ' the wlcne to-gaS,' the clouds part asunder ; Morris, Spec, of Eng. pt. 1. p. 7, 1. 169. And again, 'thagh the fourme of brede to-go,' though the form of bread disappear ; Shoreham's Poems, p. 29. That best go mighte, each in the way he could best go ; each made the best of his way to a safe place.
Pàgina 6 - On bokes for to rede I me delyte, And in myn herte have hem in reverence ; And to hem yeve swich lust and swich credence, That ther is wel unethe game noon That from my bokes make me to goon, But hit be other up-on the haly-day, Or...
Pàgina 13 - And, as I koude, this fresshe flour I grette, Knelyng alwey, til it unclosed was, Upon the smale, softe, swote gras, That was with floures swote enbrouded al, Of swich swetnesse and swich odour overal, That, for to speke of gomme, or herbe, or tree, Comparisoun may noon ymaked bee; For yt surmounteth pleynly alle odoures, And of riche beaute alle floures.
Pàgina 145 - La meretrice, che mai dall' ospizio Di Cesare non torse gli occhi putti, Morte comune, e delle Corti vizio, Infiammò contra me gli animi tutti , E gì' infiammati infiammar sì Augusto, Che i lieti onor tornaro in tristi lutti. L' animo mio per disdegnoso gusto, Credendo col morir fuggir disdegno, Ingiusto fece me contra me giusto. Per le nuove radici d...