Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from Authentick Documents |
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... in condemning other bookes , yet permitted his bookes to be read , So it pleased God to blind then the eies of them , for the more commodity of his people , to the intent that , through the reading of his treatises , some fruit ...
... in condemning other bookes , yet permitted his bookes to be read , So it pleased God to blind then the eies of them , for the more commodity of his people , to the intent that , through the reading of his treatises , some fruit ...
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Page 172 - And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.
Page 189 - 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. This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, That first he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Page 176 - For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. At mete was she wel ytaughte withalle; She lette no morsel from hire lippes falle, Ne wette hire fingres in hire sauce depe. Wel coude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe, Thatte no drope ne fell upon hire brest.
Page 174 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Page 172 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.
Page 180 - To make his English swete upon his tonge ; And in his harping, whan that he hadde songe, His eyen twinkeled in his hed aright, As don the sterres in a frosty night.
Page 173 - At Alisaundre he was whan it was wonne. Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne Aboven alle nacions in Pruce; In Lettow hadde he reysed and in Ruce, No Cristen man so ofte of his degree.
Page 174 - With him ther was his Sone, a yonge Squier, A Lover, and a lusty Bacheler, With Lockes crull, as they were laide in presse ; Of Twenty yere of age he was, I gesse; Of his Stature he was of even lengthe, And wonderly deliver...
Page 189 - But rather wolde he yeven out of doute, Unto his poure parishens aboute, Of his off'ring, 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.
Page 195 - In danger hadde he at his owen gise The yonge girles of the diocise, And knew hir conseil, and was of hir rede. A gerlond hadde he sette upon his hede, As gret as it were for an alestake : A bokeler hadde he made him of a cake.
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| Title | Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from Authentick Documents Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from Authentick Documents, F., C. and J. Rivington (Firm) |
| Authors | Henry John Todd, John Gower |
| Compiled by | Henry John Todd |
| Publisher | F. C. and J. Rivington, 1810 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 394 pages |
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