WorksMacmillan, 1899 - 771 pàgines |
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... rest of Chaucer's work it was essential for success to get into touch with the manuscripts themselves , and this was for me impossible . Years previously Bradshaw had written , in excuse for his failure to produce a ' Globe ' text ...
... rest of Chaucer's work it was essential for success to get into touch with the manuscripts themselves , and this was for me impossible . Years previously Bradshaw had written , in excuse for his failure to produce a ' Globe ' text ...
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... rest ; but being challenged to a wager by battle and defeated , was himself hanged , a fate which seems eventually to have befallen most of his comrades . After the loss of his clerkships Chaucer's means of subsistence , so far as we ...
... rest ; but being challenged to a wager by battle and defeated , was himself hanged , a fate which seems eventually to have befallen most of his comrades . After the loss of his clerkships Chaucer's means of subsistence , so far as we ...
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... rest were written . But questions of this kind are never likely to be settled , and they are alluded to here chiefly to show how impossible it is to bring the two sides of Chaucer's life into as close connection as we could wish . When ...
... rest were written . But questions of this kind are never likely to be settled , and they are alluded to here chiefly to show how impossible it is to bring the two sides of Chaucer's life into as close connection as we could wish . When ...
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... rest . In the early stories , though the verse is good enough , the treatment is often careless and unsympathetic , and Chaucer was clearly not interested in them . It cannot be said dogmatically that they show early work , but it seems ...
... rest . In the early stories , though the verse is good enough , the treatment is often careless and unsympathetic , and Chaucer was clearly not interested in them . It cannot be said dogmatically that they show early work , but it seems ...
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... rest . doubtful MSS . are printed below the remainder , which I agree with Koch in arrang- ing as follows : - B B F B Lt Tn Y C རྞ Gg Ff H T Jo La F = Fairfax 16 ( Bodleian Library ) . B = Bodley 638 " Lt. = Longleat MS . 258 ( Marquis ...
... rest . doubtful MSS . are printed below the remainder , which I agree with Koch in arrang- ing as follows : - B B F B Lt Tn Y C རྞ Gg Ff H T Jo La F = Fairfax 16 ( Bodleian Library ) . B = Bodley 638 " Lt. = Longleat MS . 258 ( Marquis ...
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Pàgina 1 - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Pàgina 7 - That to the offrynge bifore hire sholde goon; And if ther dide, certeyn so wrooth was she, That she was out of alle charitee. Hir coverchiefs ful fyne weren of ground; I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed.
Pàgina 140 - But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralite, goode men.
Pàgina 151 - This olde man gan loke in his visage, And seyde thus, "for I ne can nat finde A man, though that I walked in-to Inde, Neither in citee nor in no village, That wolde chaunge his youthe for myn age; And therfore moot I han myn age stille, As longe time as it is goddes wille.
Pàgina 5 - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also 285 That unto logyk hadde longe ygo. As leene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.
Pàgina 25 - But this is yet the beste game of alle, That she, for whom they han this jolitee, Kan hem ther-fore as muche thank as me. She woot namoore of al this hoote fare, By God, than woot a cokkow or an hare.
Pàgina 119 - Tragedie is to seyn, a certeyn storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of hym that stood in greet prosperitee And is yfallen out of heigh degree Into myserie, and endeth wrecchedly, And they ben versified communely Of six feet, which men clepen exametron.
Pàgina 3 - After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe. At mete wel y-taught was she with-alle ; She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle, Ne wette hir fingres in hir sauce depe.
Pàgina 8 - But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were, of heigh or lough estat, Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys.
Pàgina 15 - Till it fil ones, in a morwe of May, That Emelye, that fairer was to sene Than is the lylie upon his stalke grene, And fressher than the May with floures newe, — For with the rose colour stroof hire hewe, I noot which was the fyner of hem two, — Er it were day, as was hir wone to do, She was arisen and al redy dight...