A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... humor and fancy , and the vivid beauty of its descriptions , combine with its moral sweetness to make this the most delightful blossom of all pre - Chaucerian romance . Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight contains fair promise not only of ...
... humor and fancy , and the vivid beauty of its descriptions , combine with its moral sweetness to make this the most delightful blossom of all pre - Chaucerian romance . Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight contains fair promise not only of ...
الصفحة 49
... humor and realism ; she has had " husbands five at church - door , " and , though " somdel deaf , " expects to live to wed several others ; she rides on an ambler , with spurs and scarlet hose on her feet , and on her head a hat as ...
... humor and realism ; she has had " husbands five at church - door , " and , though " somdel deaf , " expects to live to wed several others ; she rides on an ambler , with spurs and scarlet hose on her feet , and on her head a hat as ...
الصفحة 51
... humor . Sobered by the miraculous tale of Hugh of Lincoln , the company is riding silently along , when the Host , to break the awe - struck mood , turns to Chaucer , and begins to joke him upon his shy ab- stracted air and his ...
... humor . Sobered by the miraculous tale of Hugh of Lincoln , the company is riding silently along , when the Host , to break the awe - struck mood , turns to Chaucer , and begins to joke him upon his shy ab- stracted air and his ...
الصفحة 52
... humorous address to his scrivener Adam , he calls down curses upon that unworthy servant , for spoiling good verses by bad copying , and in Troilus and Creseide he beseeches his readers not to " mis- metre " his book . From his very ...
... humorous address to his scrivener Adam , he calls down curses upon that unworthy servant , for spoiling good verses by bad copying , and in Troilus and Creseide he beseeches his readers not to " mis- metre " his book . From his very ...
الصفحة 59
... humor and picturesqueness of social life . What evidences do you find of these traits in what is here told of his life and work ? What circumstances of Chaucer's life were calculated to give him the wide knowledge of men shown in the ...
... humor and picturesqueness of social life . What evidences do you find of these traits in what is here told of his life and work ? What circumstances of Chaucer's life were calculated to give him the wide knowledge of men shown in the ...
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