Chaucer's England, by Matthew Browne |
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Pàgina 5
... Middle Ages caste was moral as well as social and civic . The knight was to put lance in rest ; the clerk was to be learned , ' morall of sentaunce ; ' the parson was to preach , and to be a great deal more religious than his people ...
... Middle Ages caste was moral as well as social and civic . The knight was to put lance in rest ; the clerk was to be learned , ' morall of sentaunce ; ' the parson was to preach , and to be a great deal more religious than his people ...
Pàgina 13
... though only to be roughly in- terrupted by Harry Baily , and cut short before he has reached the middle . To his fatness Chaucer refers more than once in his other poems . In a well - known roundel of The Poet of the Canterbury Tales . 13.
... though only to be roughly in- terrupted by Harry Baily , and cut short before he has reached the middle . To his fatness Chaucer refers more than once in his other poems . In a well - known roundel of The Poet of the Canterbury Tales . 13.
Pàgina 21
... middle ages had no literary code or etiquette which made the acknowledgment of such debts at all necessary . Upon this question Sir Harris Nicolas seems to me I say it with much respect — to hit rather wide of the mark . In the first ...
... middle ages had no literary code or etiquette which made the acknowledgment of such debts at all necessary . Upon this question Sir Harris Nicolas seems to me I say it with much respect — to hit rather wide of the mark . In the first ...
Pàgina 27
... middle ages , as distin- guished from fidelity to the conjugal bond . But then those portions of the work in which the lady shows manifestly as a real woman seem to me incapable of being torn from those portions in which the poet is ...
... middle ages , as distin- guished from fidelity to the conjugal bond . But then those portions of the work in which the lady shows manifestly as a real woman seem to me incapable of being torn from those portions in which the poet is ...
Pàgina 31
... middle ages , I find it utterly im- possible to make anything but a gross absurdity out of the Testament of Love unless there lie embedded in it such facts as these : -that Chaucer got into trouble for the part he took in certain civic ...
... middle ages , I find it utterly im- possible to make anything but a gross absurdity out of the Testament of Love unless there lie embedded in it such facts as these : -that Chaucer got into trouble for the part he took in certain civic ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 47 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Pàgina 59 - Mulier est hominis confusio,— Madame, the sentence of this Latyn is, "Womman is mannes joye, and al his blis...
Pàgina 41 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ,• and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Pàgina 178 - But sore weep she if oon of hem were deed, Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte : And al was conscience and tendre herte.
Pàgina 92 - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones: Ful big he was of braun and eek of bones; That proved wel, for over-al ther he cam, At wrastling he wolde have alwey the ram.
Pàgina 42 - Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Pàgina 281 - For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Pàgina 191 - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand: Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her.
Pàgina 167 - Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turned to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be, And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires.
Pàgina 42 - As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.