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Page xii
... Petrarch had been crowned foine years before with great so- lemnity at Rome . The honours which that celebrated poet acquired , and which he had never acquired but in an age of the greatest gallantry , excited all who had any turn that ...
... Petrarch had been crowned foine years before with great so- lemnity at Rome . The honours which that celebrated poet acquired , and which he had never acquired but in an age of the greatest gallantry , excited all who had any turn that ...
Page lviii
... is believed that he was perfonally acquainted with the celebrated Petrarch , but that he was perfectly mafter of his writings and thofe of Eoccace is inconteftable . bours of fo many eminent perfons , as will do Iviii LIFE OF CHAUCER .
... is believed that he was perfonally acquainted with the celebrated Petrarch , but that he was perfectly mafter of his writings and thofe of Eoccace is inconteftable . bours of fo many eminent perfons , as will do Iviii LIFE OF CHAUCER .
Page clii
... Petrarch , and Boccace . When we reflect that two of Chaucer's juvenile productions , the Palamon and Arcite and the Troilus , were in a manner tranflated from the Thefeida and the Filo- ftrato of Beccace ( 62 ) , both written in the ...
... Petrarch , and Boccace . When we reflect that two of Chaucer's juvenile productions , the Palamon and Arcite and the Troilus , were in a manner tranflated from the Thefeida and the Filo- ftrato of Beccace ( 62 ) , both written in the ...
Page clxxi
... Petrarch , whofe work upon this fubject is a mere tranflation from Boccace , 20. Reafons for changing the order of the three laft flan- zas of the Ballade at the end of The Clerke's Tale , and for placing The Prologue to The Marchant's ...
... Petrarch , whofe work upon this fubject is a mere tranflation from Boccace , 20. Reafons for changing the order of the three laft flan- zas of the Ballade at the end of The Clerke's Tale , and for placing The Prologue to The Marchant's ...
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... Petrarch received the laurel at Rome . The long friendship which fubfifted between thefe two extraordinary men muft probably have commenced in the preceding winter , when Pe- trarch came to Naples in order to be examined by King Robert ...
... Petrarch received the laurel at Rome . The long friendship which fubfifted between thefe two extraordinary men muft probably have commenced in the preceding winter , when Pe- trarch came to Naples in order to be examined by King Robert ...
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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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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page ccxxxvi - Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 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...