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الصفحة viii
... 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 Baleg but this is to be understood of the later ...
... 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 Baleg but this is to be understood of the later ...
الصفحة x
... Author's birthplace : Edmund Spenfer , " fays he , a Londoner , was fo fmiled on by the Mufes at his birth that he excelled all the English " poets that went before him , if we except only his fellow - cf- " tizen Chaucer . " It may ...
... Author's birthplace : Edmund Spenfer , " fays he , a Londoner , was fo fmiled on by the Mufes at his birth that he excelled all the English " poets that went before him , if we except only his fellow - cf- " tizen Chaucer . " It may ...
الصفحة xii
... Author compofed it after the manner of those Italian poems that were then fo generally efteemed , and for which the famous Francis Petrarch had been crowned foine years before with great so- lemnity at Rome . The honours which that ...
... Author compofed it after the manner of those Italian poems that were then fo generally efteemed , and for which the famous Francis Petrarch had been crowned foine years before with great so- lemnity at Rome . The honours which that ...
الصفحة xv
... Author feems to have owed his admit- tance into the King's service in quality of Page , which in the Latin of those times was called valettus or valečtus , an honour that young noblemen of the firft rank were glad to accept , to the ...
... Author feems to have owed his admit- tance into the King's service in quality of Page , which in the Latin of those times was called valettus or valečtus , an honour that young noblemen of the firft rank were glad to accept , to the ...
الصفحة xvi
... Author , who was continually giving fome fpecimen or other of the vivacity of his parts , wrought himself into high favour , infomuch that it appears that he was a conftant attendant on the court , and when it was at Woodstock refided ...
... Author , who was continually giving fome fpecimen or other of the vivacity of his parts , wrought himself into high favour , infomuch that it appears that he was a conftant attendant on the court , and when it was at Woodstock refided ...
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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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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة ccxxxvi - Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
الصفحة 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...