Bell's Edition, Količine 1–2J. Bell, 1782 |
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Stran
... first great improver and reformer of our lan- guage , flourished in the 14th century , and as he justly obtained the highest admiration amongst his contem- poraries , fo his memory has ever fince been highly honoured . One would imagine ...
... first great improver and reformer of our lan- guage , flourished in the 14th century , and as he justly obtained the highest admiration amongst his contem- poraries , fo his memory has ever fince been highly honoured . One would imagine ...
Stran
... first great improver and reformer of our lance guage , flourished in the 14th century , and as he justly obtained the highest admiration amongst his contemporaries , so his memory has ever since been highly honoured . One would imagine ...
... first great improver and reformer of our lance guage , flourished in the 14th century , and as he justly obtained the highest admiration amongst his contemporaries , so his memory has ever since been highly honoured . One would imagine ...
Stran vii
... first great improver and reformer of our lan- guage , flourished in the 14th century , and as he justly obtained the highest admiration amongst his contem- poraries , fo his memory has ever fince been highly honoured . One would imagine ...
... first great improver and reformer of our lan- guage , flourished in the 14th century , and as he justly obtained the highest admiration amongst his contem- poraries , fo his memory has ever fince been highly honoured . One would imagine ...
Stran viii
... first he calls him Sir Geoffrey Chaucer Knight , and fays nothing of his family at all , afterwards he met with Leland's book , and abridged his account of him . John Pitts is very clear that he was of an exceeding good family , and not ...
... first he calls him Sir Geoffrey Chaucer Knight , and fays nothing of his family at all , afterwards he met with Leland's book , and abridged his account of him . John Pitts is very clear that he was of an exceeding good family , and not ...
Stran ix
... first breath in the city of London ; and that he had a great interest amongst its inhabitants is a thing as certain as that it drew upon him many misfortunes , a fortune . The induftrious Mr. Hearne thinks it probable his father was a ...
... first breath in the city of London ; and that he had a great interest amongst its inhabitants is a thing as certain as that it drew upon him many misfortunes , a fortune . The induftrious Mr. Hearne thinks it probable his father was a ...
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alfo alſo anon Arcite Author becauſe beft beſt Boccace Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer cofin coude Crift Cuftance Decameron doun Du Cange Duke edition Emelie English faid fame fayd fayre fays fecond feems feen fenfe fent feveral fhal fhall fhuld fignify firft firſt flain fome French French language ftill fuch fuppofe fwiche fyllables GEOFFREY CHAUCER goth gret grete hath herte himſelf hire honour King knight laft language Layamon litel Lord metre moft moſt obferve Ormulum paffage Palamon perfon Petrarch Plowman's Tale poem poet prefent probably Prologue quod reafon rhyme Robert of Brunne Roman de Rou Saxon ſay ſeems Seint ſhe ſpeaks Tale tellen Thebes thee thefe Thefeida ther theſe thofe Thomas Chaucer thoſe thou thould tranflated trewe unto uſed verfe verſe whan wife withouten wold word
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran xxv - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace...
Stran ccxxxvi - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly.
Stran ccxix - A KNIGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he loved chivalrye, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
Stran 3 - The yelding of his seed, and of his grain. His lordes shepe, his nete, and his deirie, His swine, his hors, his store, and his pultrie, Were holly in this reves governing, And by his covenant yave he rekening, Sin that his lord was twenty yere of age; Ther coude no man bring him in arerage. Ther n'as baillif, ne herde, ne other hine, That he ne knew his sleight and his covine: They were adradde of him, as of the deth. His wonning was ful fayre upon an heth, With grene trees yshadewed was his place.
Stran cclii - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones, Ful bigge he was of braun, and eke of bones; That proved wel, for over all ther he came, At wrastling he wold bere away the ram. He was short shuldered brode, a thikke gnarre, Ther n'as no dore, that he n'olde heve of barre, Or breke it at a renning with his hede.
Stran 28 - For which thou art ybounden as a knight To helpen me, if it lie in thy might, Or elles art thou false I dare well say'n.
Stran 54 - And they him sware his axing fayr and wel, And him of lordship and of mercie praid, And he hem granted grace, and thus he said : To speke of real linage and richesse, Though that she were a quene or a...
Stran 5 - Than wolde he speke, and crie as he were wood. And whan that he wel dronken had the win, Than wold he speken no word but Latin.
Stran ccxxxvi - Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Stran 42 - Theseus, his squyer principal, 640 is risen, and loketh on the myrie day. And, for to doon his observaunce to May, Remembring on the poynt of his desyr, He on a courser...