Bell's Edition, Volúmenes1-2J. Bell, 1782 |
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... Fame's eternal bead - roll worthy to be fil'd Old Dan Geffrey , in whofe gentle fpright The pure well - head of poetry did dwell He whilft he lived was the foveraigne head Of thepherds all Old CHAUCER , like the morning flar , To us ...
... Fame's eternal bead - roll worthy to be fil'd Old Dan Geffrey , in whofe gentle fpright The pure well - head of poetry did dwell He whilft he lived was the foveraigne head Of thepherds all Old CHAUCER , like the morning flar , To us ...
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... Fame's eternal bead - roll worthy to be fil'd- Old Dan Geffrey , in whofe gentle spright The pure well - head of poetry did dweli . He whilft he lived was the foveraigne head Of thepherds all ...... Old CHAUCER , like the morning flar ...
... Fame's eternal bead - roll worthy to be fil'd- Old Dan Geffrey , in whofe gentle spright The pure well - head of poetry did dweli . He whilft he lived was the foveraigne head Of thepherds all ...... Old CHAUCER , like the morning flar ...
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... fame county were also belonging to his fa- mily , and might therefore with as much juftice as Woodstock put in a claim to his birth . But Chaucer himself feems to have determined the point as clearly as man could do , for speaking of ...
... fame county were also belonging to his fa- mily , and might therefore with as much juftice as Woodstock put in a claim to his birth . But Chaucer himself feems to have determined the point as clearly as man could do , for speaking of ...
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... fame title that in the old manufcripts is and ought to be entitled The Book of the Duchefs , written not upon her marriage but upon her death , and this being wrote in the manner of a vifion , and the other not being discovered , came ...
... fame title that in the old manufcripts is and ought to be entitled The Book of the Duchefs , written not upon her marriage but upon her death , and this being wrote in the manner of a vifion , and the other not being discovered , came ...
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... fame year , and by the fame title , we find him commiffioned , in conjunction with other perfons , to treat with the republick of Genoa ; and accordingly thither he went , and actually managed a negotiation , concerning the fubject of ...
... fame year , and by the fame title , we find him commiffioned , in conjunction with other perfons , to treat with the republick of Genoa ; and accordingly thither he went , and actually managed a negotiation , concerning the fubject of ...
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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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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página ccxxxvi - Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Página 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...