Bell's Edition, Količine 1–2J. Bell, 1782 |
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Stran viii
... gives us no kind of certainty in refpect to our Author's family at all . Lelani contents himself with hint- ing that he was of a genteel extraction , nobili loco natus , are his words ; and it is faid that he is faithfully copied by ...
... gives us no kind of certainty in refpect to our Author's family at all . Lelani contents himself with hint- ing that he was of a genteel extraction , nobili loco natus , are his words ; and it is faid that he is faithfully copied by ...
Stran xxxi
... give any account of Chaucer's life have been very much at a loss about this circumstance of his having recourse to the King's protection , which shows that in the very beginning of this reign his affaits were in great diforder , and yet ...
... give any account of Chaucer's life have been very much at a loss about this circumstance of his having recourse to the King's protection , which shows that in the very beginning of this reign his affaits were in great diforder , and yet ...
Stran xxxiv
... give into this opinion , and feem to think that he like- wife began to temporize , and did not speak his fenti- ments fo freely as formerly ; but the truth is otherwise , for the Duke of Lancaster did not condemn Wickliffe's doctrine ...
... give into this opinion , and feem to think that he like- wife began to temporize , and did not speak his fenti- ments fo freely as formerly ; but the truth is otherwise , for the Duke of Lancaster did not condemn Wickliffe's doctrine ...
Stran xlv
... gives a particular account of this tree , and fays there were three of them planted by Chaucer , the King's oak , the Queen's oak , and Chaucer's oak . year of Henry IV . by an exemplification of his LIFE OF CHAUCER . alv.
... gives a particular account of this tree , and fays there were three of them planted by Chaucer , the King's oak , the Queen's oak , and Chaucer's oak . year of Henry IV . by an exemplification of his LIFE OF CHAUCER . alv.
Stran li
... give the best account we may of his merit in general as a poet in all the different kinds of writing by which he diftinguished himself in that ca- pacity ; and next we will give the reader the cleareft By which he distinguished himself ...
... give the best account we may of his merit in general as a poet in all the different kinds of writing by which he diftinguished himself in that ca- pacity ; and next we will give the reader the cleareft By which he distinguished himself ...
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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...