Chaucer's England, by Matthew Browne |
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Pàgina 5
... side of all this , do pretty much as they please . This is the organisation of life ; virtues and offices are divided and apportioned ; and the Church overlooks the motley throng with blessing or ban in her power . I do not see any ...
... side of all this , do pretty much as they please . This is the organisation of life ; virtues and offices are divided and apportioned ; and the Church overlooks the motley throng with blessing or ban in her power . I do not see any ...
Pàgina 28
... side of the questions of the day . At all events , his dismissal quickly followed the sitting of a Commission appointed in No- vember to inquire into the management of the depart- ments of the Subsidies and Customs ; and Adam Yerdeley ...
... side of the questions of the day . At all events , his dismissal quickly followed the sitting of a Commission appointed in No- vember to inquire into the management of the depart- ments of the Subsidies and Customs ; and Adam Yerdeley ...
Pàgina 29
... side of the struggle in the City as would lead to their impeachment . It is taken for proved upon the same evidence , namely , that of the Testament of Love that the poet accepted the terms , and did actually betray his friends into the ...
... side of the struggle in the City as would lead to their impeachment . It is taken for proved upon the same evidence , namely , that of the Testament of Love that the poet accepted the terms , and did actually betray his friends into the ...
Pàgina 42
... side I forget ; but if it had , like a sea - gull , some of the vivacity of the swallow or the martin , it would repre- sent the flight of the Chaucerian or the Miltonic verse as contrasted with the swallow - flights of poets who cannot ...
... side I forget ; but if it had , like a sea - gull , some of the vivacity of the swallow or the martin , it would repre- sent the flight of the Chaucerian or the Miltonic verse as contrasted with the swallow - flights of poets who cannot ...
Pàgina 43
... side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds , In fable or romance , of Uther's son , Begirt with British and Armoric knights , And all who since , baptized or infidel , Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban , Damasco , or Morocco , or ...
... side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds , In fable or romance , of Uther's son , Begirt with British and Armoric knights , And all who since , baptized or infidel , Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban , Damasco , or Morocco , or ...
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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.