Chapters on Early English LiteratureE. Moxn, 1837 - 344 páginas |
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... Pilgrims , are altogether free from it ; and the Nonne's Priest's Tale , perhaps on the whole Chaucer's masterpiece , as a humorous poem , does not contain more than one or two exceptionable expressions . X INTRODUCTION .
... Pilgrims , are altogether free from it ; and the Nonne's Priest's Tale , perhaps on the whole Chaucer's masterpiece , as a humorous poem , does not contain more than one or two exceptionable expressions . X INTRODUCTION .
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... Pilgrimage , whether to be regarded as Comedy or Descriptive Satire - Characters of the Pilgrims To what Class of Fictions the Tales belong - Com- parison of Chaucer and Bocaccio as Novelists 140 CHAPTER VI . Review of the History of ...
... Pilgrimage , whether to be regarded as Comedy or Descriptive Satire - Characters of the Pilgrims To what Class of Fictions the Tales belong - Com- parison of Chaucer and Bocaccio as Novelists 140 CHAPTER VI . Review of the History of ...
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... his readers , seems to answer to " sirs . " It is addressed by the Sompnour of the Canterbury Pilgrimage to the whole cavalcade . England may , perhaps , assist the comprehension of this 8 30 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
... his readers , seems to answer to " sirs . " It is addressed by the Sompnour of the Canterbury Pilgrimage to the whole cavalcade . England may , perhaps , assist the comprehension of this 8 30 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
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... This laborious work extends to 30,000 lines , and is , therefore , not very far short of double the length of the " Canterbury Pilgrimage . " Considered as a magazine of stories , this work resembles ç 2 WITH CHAUCER . 27.
... This laborious work extends to 30,000 lines , and is , therefore , not very far short of double the length of the " Canterbury Pilgrimage . " Considered as a magazine of stories , this work resembles ç 2 WITH CHAUCER . 27.
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... pilgrimage is , to gratify the reader by a pleasing mixture of the serious and the ludicrous . In this respect the work of Chaucer resembles the " Decameron , " as that of Gower does the " Gesta Romanorum ; ” the only difference between ...
... pilgrimage is , to gratify the reader by a pleasing mixture of the serious and the ludicrous . In this respect the work of Chaucer resembles the " Decameron , " as that of Gower does the " Gesta Romanorum ; ” the only difference between ...
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afford age of Chaucer allegorical alluded allusion amongst appear Ariosto Bocaccio Boethius Canterbury Pilgrimage Canterbury Tales Caxton character chiefly classical clergy clerk comedy comic composition Confessio Amantis contemporary Court of Love Dante distinguished drama Dutchesse earliest edit England English literature English Poetry Fairy French friars Froissart Gower Greek Henry Heywood hire House of Fame Humour imitation instance John John Heywood John the Chaplain Jonson King Knight Knight's Tale labour Lady language Latin latter Lawe's learning Legende Leland literary Lydgate metrical moral Nonne's Priest's Tale original Oxford Parliament of Fowles passages perhaps Petrarch pilgrims play poet poetical popular probably prologue prose Queene reader regarded Richard romances Romaunt satire scarcely scenes seems Shakspeare Shakspeare's specimen Spenser spirit style taste Testament of Love thou tion translation Troilus and Cresseide Tyrwhitt Warton Wickliffe Wife of Bathe Wife of Bathe's writers
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Página 293 - Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow . The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Página 266 - What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 173 - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; such as are becoming of them, and of them only.
Página 338 - Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran, And eek with staves many another man; Ran Colle our dogge, and Talbot, and...
Página 153 - PEKSONE of a toun : But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversite ful patient : And swiche he was ypreved often sithes.
Página 172 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different education, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Página 240 - This is good stuff for wise men to laugh at, or honest men to take pleasure at; yet I know, when God's Bible was banished the court, and <( Morte Arthur " received into the prince's chamber.
Página 239 - Oh, ye knights of England, where is the custom and usage of noble chivalry that was used in those days ? What do ye now but go to the baynes and play at dice ? And some, not well advised, use not honest and good rule, against all order of knighthood. Leave this, leave it! and read the noble volumes of St Graal, of Lancelot, of Galaad, of Trystram, of Perse Forest, of Percyval, of Gawayn, and many more ; there shall ye see manhood, courtesy and gentleness.
Página 257 - By him lay heavy Sleep, the cousin of Death, Flat on the ground and still as any stone, A very corpse, save yielding forth a breath. Small keep took he whom Fortune frowned on Or whom she lifted up into the throne Of high renown; but as a living death, So, dead alive, of life he drew the breath. The body's rest, the quiet of the heart, The...
Página 172 - Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons.