A Specimen of Chaucer's Language with Explanatory NotesC.A. Leffler, printer, 1861 - 83 páginas |
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adjective adverb afterwards Anglo Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon verb aspirate Ausg baculus Blanch of Lancaster Bopp Bopp's Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer compare note consequently consonant contracted coude denotes derived dialects Diez dissyllable dropped Dryden duke of Lancaster Dutch Engl Etym etymologists Examples foll GEOFFREY CHAUCER gipon Goth Gothic Gothic language Gramm Greek Grimm guttural Hebrew hence High Germ Hochdeutschen Icel idioms instance interchange Italian Knightes Tale language latter Low Latin Masc mentioned metre modern English modern German Neutre obsolete occurs old English old HG old High German origin participle particle Piers Ploughman plural poet poetry prefix preposition preterite tense Prologue pronounced pronunciation Provencial radical consonant remains Sanscrit root Sanser Saxon seems signification softened sometimes Spiritus Asper Sprache Sscr substantive sunno supposes Swed Swedish syllable terminal ther Ulfilas UPSALA verb Vergl verse vowel vowel sound Welsh Whan wiht word writing written
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Página 12 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humors (as we now call them) of the whole English nation in his age.
Página 54 - Of his offring, and eke of his substance. He coude in litel thing have suffisance. Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder, But he ne left nought for no rain ne thonder, In sikenesse and in mischief to visite The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite, Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf.
Página 12 - 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. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned. Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different: the Reeve, the Miller, and the Cook are several men, and distinguished from each other as much as...
Página 12 - But enough of this: there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty...
Página 12 - The Matter and Manner of their Tales, and of their Telling, are so suited to their different Educations, Humours, and Callings, that each of them would be improper in any other Mouth.
Página 52 - Over the burning marie, not like those steps On heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire.