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... REMARKS ON SOME OF THE MANUSCRIPTS- MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD · MANUSCRIPTS AT CAMBRIDGE MANUSCRIPTS IN LONDON xl xlii xlv REMARKS ON POEMS I - XXIII xlvii I. AN A. B. C. I II . THE COMPLEYNTE UNTO PITE 8 III . THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESSE 13 ...
... REMARKS ON SOME OF THE MANUSCRIPTS- MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD · MANUSCRIPTS AT CAMBRIDGE MANUSCRIPTS IN LONDON xl xlii xlv REMARKS ON POEMS I - XXIII xlvii I. AN A. B. C. I II . THE COMPLEYNTE UNTO PITE 8 III . THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESSE 13 ...
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... remark of the poet , the old editions insert a piece called the ' Lamentacion of Marie Magdaleine , ' which has no pretence to be considered Chaucer's , and may be summarily The Legend of Good Women is here meant ; and ' xxv . ' is ...
... remark of the poet , the old editions insert a piece called the ' Lamentacion of Marie Magdaleine , ' which has no pretence to be considered Chaucer's , and may be summarily The Legend of Good Women is here meant ; and ' xxv . ' is ...
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... remark . This , however , would require us to read did rather than doth in the phrase ' him - selfe doth so expresse . ' In any case , I refuse to take any other view until some competent critic will undertake to tell me , what poem of ...
... remark . This , however , would require us to read did rather than doth in the phrase ' him - selfe doth so expresse . ' In any case , I refuse to take any other view until some competent critic will undertake to tell me , what poem of ...
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... remarks by Chaucer's great admirer , John Shirley , who took considerable pains to copy out and preserve his poems , and is said by Stowe to have died Oct. 21 , 1456 , at the great age of ninety , so that he was born more than 30 years ...
... remarks by Chaucer's great admirer , John Shirley , who took considerable pains to copy out and preserve his poems , and is said by Stowe to have died Oct. 21 , 1456 , at the great age of ninety , so that he was born more than 30 years ...
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... remark : — Here foloweth certaine woorkes of Geffray Chauser , whiche hath not heretofore been printed , and are gathered and added to this booke by Ihon Stowe . 42. A balade made by Chaucer , teching what is gentilnes1 . [ Gentilesse ...
... remark : — Here foloweth certaine woorkes of Geffray Chauser , whiche hath not heretofore been printed , and are gathered and added to this booke by Ihon Stowe . 42. A balade made by Chaucer , teching what is gentilnes1 . [ Gentilesse ...
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Page 305 - there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it...
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Page ix - To serve yow, in prcysing of your name. He made the book that hight the Hous of Fame, And eke the Deeth of Blaunche the Duchesse, And the Parlement of Foules, as I gesse, And al the love of Palamon and Arcite 420 Of Thebes, thogh the storye ys knowen lyte; And many an ympne for your halydayes, That highten balades, roundels, virelayes...
Page 101 - Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, I never thenk to ben in his prison lene ; Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.
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Page 300 - Growing on's cheek (but none knows how); With these the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my Campaspe win.
Page 331 - Muses! O high genius! now vouchsafe Your aid. O mind! that all I saw hast kept Safe in a written record, here thy worth And eminent endowments come to proof. 1 thus began : " Bard ! thou who art my guide, Consider well, if virtue be in me Sufficient, ere to this high enterprise Thou trust me. Thou hast told that Silvius' sire,1 Yet clothed in corruptible flesh, among The immortal tribes had entrance, and was there Sensibly present.
Page 210 - For whiche unto your mercy thus I crye: Beth hevy ageyn, or elles mot I dye!
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Page 100 - Your yen two wol slee me sodenly, I may the beaute of hem not sustene, So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.