A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... Canterbury Tales , ruled their broad acres and dispensed a bounteous hospitality . Travel was very unsafe , for men in " buckram and Kendal green , " the successors of Robin Hood and his merry men , lay in wait for booty , and levied ...
... Canterbury Tales , ruled their broad acres and dispensed a bounteous hospitality . Travel was very unsafe , for men in " buckram and Kendal green , " the successors of Robin Hood and his merry men , lay in wait for booty , and levied ...
الصفحة 44
... Canterbury Tales , was written . Toward the end of Richard II's reign Chaucer fell into poverty , from causes not well known ; but in 1399 , on the accesssion of Henry IV , a ballad entitled " The Compleint of Chaucer to his Empty Purse ...
... Canterbury Tales , was written . Toward the end of Richard II's reign Chaucer fell into poverty , from causes not well known ; but in 1399 , on the accesssion of Henry IV , a ballad entitled " The Compleint of Chaucer to his Empty Purse ...
الصفحة 46
... reason that all the stories illustrate the same theme , and lack , when taken together , that element of sur- prise and contrast essential to keep up the interest . " The Canterbury Tales . " - The drift of 46 Middle English Period.
... reason that all the stories illustrate the same theme , and lack , when taken together , that element of sur- prise and contrast essential to keep up the interest . " The Canterbury Tales . " - The drift of 46 Middle English Period.
الصفحة 47
... Canterbury Tales , upon a scheme wonderfully conceived for the ends he had in view . Collections of stories , both secular and sacred , had been popular in the Middle Ages , and the Renaissance inherited the taste for them . Boccaccio ...
... Canterbury Tales , upon a scheme wonderfully conceived for the ends he had in view . Collections of stories , both secular and sacred , had been popular in the Middle Ages , and the Renaissance inherited the taste for them . Boccaccio ...
الصفحة 51
... Canterbury Tales , in the frag- mentary form in which they were left , conclude . It is curious to note how Chaucer's style becomes awkward , in- volved , and wearisome , as soon as he deserts his natural medium of verse , and attempts ...
... Canterbury Tales , in the frag- mentary form in which they were left , conclude . It is curious to note how Chaucer's style becomes awkward , in- volved , and wearisome , as soon as he deserts his natural medium of verse , and attempts ...
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