The Legend of Good WomenClarendon Press, 1889 - 229 pàgines |
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Pàgina xiv
... remarkable variations . The reader can discover more for him- self . The first distinct note of difference that calls for notice is at line A. 89 ( B. 108 ) , p . 9 , where the line- ' When passed was almost the month of May ' 1 I think ...
... remarkable variations . The reader can discover more for him- self . The first distinct note of difference that calls for notice is at line A. 89 ( B. 108 ) , p . 9 , where the line- ' When passed was almost the month of May ' 1 I think ...
Pàgina xxi
... remarkable that neither Boccaccio ( in the above work ) nor Ovid gives the story of Alcestis , and it is not quite certain whence Chaucer obtained it . It is briefly told in the 51st of the Fabulæ of Hyginus , but it is much more likely ...
... remarkable that neither Boccaccio ( in the above work ) nor Ovid gives the story of Alcestis , and it is not quite certain whence Chaucer obtained it . It is briefly told in the 51st of the Fabulæ of Hyginus , but it is much more likely ...
Pàgina xxv
... remarkable passage occurs concerning him , from which I will leave it to the reader to decide whether it is possible that the allusion in Chaucer might have arisen : ἐν ἐνίαις μὲν ἓν ἢ δύο τῶν γνωρίμων ἐστὶν ὀνομάτων , τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ...
... remarkable passage occurs concerning him , from which I will leave it to the reader to decide whether it is possible that the allusion in Chaucer might have arisen : ἐν ἐνίαις μὲν ἓν ἢ δύο τῶν γνωρίμων ἐστὶν ὀνομάτων , τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ...
Pàgina xxx
... remarkable , be- cause it was just for the sake of this very metamorphosis that Ovid admitted the tale into his series . See also notes to II . 745 , 784 , 797 , 798 , 814 , 835 , 869 , & c .; and cf. Gower's Con- fessio Amantis , ed ...
... remarkable , be- cause it was just for the sake of this very metamorphosis that Ovid admitted the tale into his series . See also notes to II . 745 , 784 , 797 , 798 , 814 , 835 , 869 , & c .; and cf. Gower's Con- fessio Amantis , ed ...
Pàgina xxxi
... remarkable , because all the MSS . have the reading Guido in l . 1464 , where a change would have destroyed the rime . As a matter of fact , ll . 1396-1461 are from Guido de Colonna's Historia Troiana , book i . ( see notes to ll . 1396 ...
... remarkable , because all the MSS . have the reading Guido in l . 1464 , where a change would have destroyed the rime . As a matter of fact , ll . 1396-1461 are from Guido de Colonna's Historia Troiana , book i . ( see notes to ll . 1396 ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 151 - 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...
Pàgina iii - 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 7 - 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 21 - ... 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. Herro, Dido, Laudomia, alle y-fere, And Phyllis, hanging for thy Demophoun, And Canace, espyed by thy chere, Ysiphile, betraysed with Jasoun, Maketh of your trouthc neyther boost ne soun ; Nor Ypermistre or Adriane, ye tweyne ; My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne.
Pàgina 145 - Febo, delle quali ancor la fronte spero d'ornarmi, sol che '1 concediate: le sante orecchi a" miei prieghi porgete e quelli udite come voi dovete. 11 E' m'è venuto in voglia con pietosa rima di scrivere una istoria antica, tanto negli anni riposta e nascosa che latino autor non par ne dica, per quel ch'io senta, in libro alcuna cosa; dunque sì fate che la mia fatica sia graziosa a chi ne fìa lettore o in altra maniera ascoltatore.
Pàgina 4 - 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 143 - 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...
Pàgina 8 - And maketh it soune after his fyngerynge, Ryght so mowe ye oute of myn herte bringe Swich vois, ryght as yow lyst, to laughe or pleyne. Be ye my gide and lady sovereyne!
Pàgina 193 - But afterwards the common opinion was that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or feiries, indued with knowledge of prophesie by their necromanticall science, bicause everie thing came to passe as they had spoken.
Pàgina 152 - Antonius' ships, and the soldiers fought with their pikes, halberds, and darts, and threw pots and darts with fire. Antonius' ships on the other side bestowed among them, with their cross-bows and engines of battery, great store of shot from their high towers of wood that were upon their ships. Now Publicola seeing Agrippa put forth his left wing of Caesar's army, to compass in Antonius...