The Preface to the FableAt the University Press, 1912 - 36 pages |
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... translations from Chaucer , Ovid , and Boccaccio , with a poetical epistle to his cousin , John Driden , and the second Ode on St Cecilia's Day , better known as Alexander's Feast . It is dedicated in a prose epistle to the Duke of ...
... translations from Chaucer , Ovid , and Boccaccio , with a poetical epistle to his cousin , John Driden , and the second Ode on St Cecilia's Day , better known as Alexander's Feast . It is dedicated in a prose epistle to the Duke of ...
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... Chaucer distinguishes them " not only in their inclinations , but in their ... language drawn from the vernacular , expressions coming home to men's ... translation of Ovid after finishing the twelfth book of the Metamorphoses : " here I ...
... Chaucer distinguishes them " not only in their inclinations , but in their ... language drawn from the vernacular , expressions coming home to men's ... translation of Ovid after finishing the twelfth book of the Metamorphoses : " here I ...
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... Chaucer was transfused into his body ; and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease . " The ... translation of Virgil to Dryden's : " the world has made him the same compliment , " is the answer , " for it is ...
... Chaucer was transfused into his body ; and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease . " The ... translation of Virgil to Dryden's : " the world has made him the same compliment , " is the answer , " for it is ...
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John Dryden. which I hope I have translated closely enough , and given them ... Language ; and who saw much farther into the Beauties of our Numbers , than ... Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body ; and that he was begotten by him Two ...
John Dryden. which I hope I have translated closely enough , and given them ... Language ; and who saw much farther into the Beauties of our Numbers , than ... Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body ; and that he was begotten by him Two ...
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... Chaucer , of whom I have little more to say . Both of them built on the Inven- tions of other Men ; yet since Chaucer had something of his own , as The Wife of Baths Tale , The Cock and the Fox , which I have translated , and some ...
... Chaucer , of whom I have little more to say . Both of them built on the Inven- tions of other Men ; yet since Chaucer had something of his own , as The Wife of Baths Tale , The Cock and the Fox , which I have translated , and some ...
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