Chaucer for children [selected from the Canterbury tales and minor poems, with a metrical version in mod. Engl.] by mrs. H.R. Haweis1877 |
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... seems stiff and obscure to grown up people , appears easy to children , whose crude language is in many ways its counterpart . The narrative in early English poetry is almost always very simply and clearly expressed , with the same kind ...
... seems stiff and obscure to grown up people , appears easy to children , whose crude language is in many ways its counterpart . The narrative in early English poetry is almost always very simply and clearly expressed , with the same kind ...
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... seem to peal from the page ; throughout the Clerk's Tale one seems to hear strains of infinite sadness echoing PREFACE . xi WOODCUTS PAGE TOURNAMENT.
... seem to peal from the page ; throughout the Clerk's Tale one seems to hear strains of infinite sadness echoing PREFACE . xi WOODCUTS PAGE TOURNAMENT.
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Geoffrey Chaucer Mary Eliza Haweis. Tale one seems to hear strains of infinite sadness echoing the strange outrages imposed on patient Grizel . But without attention to the rhythm half the grace and music is lost , and therefore it is ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Mary Eliza Haweis. Tale one seems to hear strains of infinite sadness echoing the strange outrages imposed on patient Grizel . But without attention to the rhythm half the grace and music is lost , and therefore it is ...
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... seem , even the King had no coach then . I am afraid Geoffrey Chaucer would not recognize that dere and swete citye of London ' in the great , smoky , noisy , bustling metropolis we are accustomed to , and I am quite sure he would not ...
... seem , even the King had no coach then . I am afraid Geoffrey Chaucer would not recognize that dere and swete citye of London ' in the great , smoky , noisy , bustling metropolis we are accustomed to , and I am quite sure he would not ...
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... seems to support the tradition . A mark was 13s . 4d . of our money , but the buying power of money was eight or ten times greater than at present . So that , although ten marks was only £ 6 12s . of our currency , it was fully equal to ...
... seems to support the tradition . A mark was 13s . 4d . of our money , but the buying power of money was eight or ten times greater than at present . So that , although ten marks was only £ 6 12s . of our currency , it was fully equal to ...
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Page 24 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 21 - She was so charitable and so piteous, She woulde weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled.
Page 46 - Ligurge him-self, the grete king of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face. The cercles of his eyen in his heed, They gloweden...
Page 20 - Upon his arm he bar a gay bracer, And by his side a swerd and a bokeler, And on that other side a gay daggere, Harneysed wel, and scharp as poynt of spere; A Cristofre on his brest of silver schene.
Page 25 - As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But loked holwe, and therto soberly.
Page 21 - But sore weep she if oon of hem were deed, Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte: And al was conscience and tendre herte.
Page 34 - Than is the lilie on hire stalkes grene. And fresscher than the May with floures newe — For with the rose colour strof hire hewe, I...
Page 86 - My brother shal be warisshed hastily; For I am siker that ther be sciences By whiche men make diverse apparences Swiche as thise subtile tregetoures pleye; For ofte at feestes have I wel herd seye That tregetours withinne an halle large Have maad come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and doun.
Page 21 - And sikerly she was of greet desport, And ful plesaunt, and amyable of port, And peyned hire to countrefete cheere Of court, and to been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence.
Page 102 - That thee is sent receive in buxomness ; The wrestling of this world asketh a fall ; Here is no home, here is but wilderness ; Forth, pilgrim, forth, O beast out of thy stall; Look up on high, and thank thy God of all ; Waiveth thy lust and let thy ghost thee lead, And truth thee shall deliver 'tis no drede.