Bell's Edition, Količine 1–2J. Bell, 1782 |
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Stran ix
... must confefs I think he was of a good family , and that for various reasons , which because I do not know they have been taken notice of before I will mention as briefly as I can . Firft then , his education Ipeaks him a gentleman bred ...
... must confefs I think he was of a good family , and that for various reasons , which because I do not know they have been taken notice of before I will mention as briefly as I can . Firft then , his education Ipeaks him a gentleman bred ...
Stran xii
... must confefs I am not very well satis- fied of that , and thould rather be of opinion that our Author compofed it after the manner of those Italian poems that were then fo generally efteemed , and for which the famous Francis Petrarch ...
... must confefs I am not very well satis- fied of that , and thould rather be of opinion that our Author compofed it after the manner of those Italian poems that were then fo generally efteemed , and for which the famous Francis Petrarch ...
Stran xlviii
... must refer only to the time of Caxton , who pro- cured a long epitaph to be written in honour of our Author by Stephanus Surigonius , Poet Laureate of Milan , which was hung upon a pillar over - againit Chaucer's gravestone , towards ...
... must refer only to the time of Caxton , who pro- cured a long epitaph to be written in honour of our Author by Stephanus Surigonius , Poet Laureate of Milan , which was hung upon a pillar over - againit Chaucer's gravestone , towards ...
Stran xlix
... must acknowledge that he fhew- ed as great fleadiness , and adhered as firmly to his For his death's date if reader thou should't call , Look but beneath and it will tell thee all . -25th October 1400 . Of cruel cares the certain cure ...
... must acknowledge that he fhew- ed as great fleadiness , and adhered as firmly to his For his death's date if reader thou should't call , Look but beneath and it will tell thee all . -25th October 1400 . Of cruel cares the certain cure ...
Stran liii
... must convince the reader that equality of num- " bers in every verfe which we call heroick was either not " known or not always practised in Chaucer's age : it were an " eafy matter to produce fome thousands of his verfes which " are ...
... must convince the reader that equality of num- " bers in every verfe which we call heroick was either not " known or not always practised in Chaucer's age : it were an " eafy matter to produce fome thousands of his verfes which " are ...
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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
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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...