 | Bernard Felix Hupp? - Literary Criticism - 1964 - 260 pages
...not the grief. (2771-2776) Then follow questions without answers: What is this world ? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any companye. (2777-2779) Magnificent! Yet empty, too, in its romantic denial of... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1996 - 324 pages
...hertes queene ! alias, my wyf ! Myn hertes lady, endere of my lyf! 70 What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye . . . ' Life is seen as dwelling amid 'compaignye' — knowing mirth,... | |
 | Peter Robinson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 312 pages
...made explicit in the already quoted final question of Arcite : A 2777 What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love now in his colde grave Allone withouten any compaignye This death and this question are asking Theseus what he can make of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 1134 pages
...on in the same Tale a line breathing the very soul of desolation— What is this world ? what asketh men to have ? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Alone, withouten any company— we cannot but wonder at the blindness of our forefathers. And the reader... | |
 | Piero Boitani - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 326 pages
...'dominion' of Saturn; or it is death and life, as in Arcite's words: What is this world ? what asketh men to have ? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye. (1, 2777-9) or in the words of Aegeus, who seems to be answering... | |
 | William Anthony Davenport - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 246 pages
...though the words now echo Boethius as much as the troubadour's voice: 'What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye. Fare wel, my swete foo, myn Emelye!* (2777-80) 119 'And if thy fortune... | |
 | Lee Patterson - Poetry - 1991 - 508 pages
...that Arcite laments in his famous and understandably baffled farewell: What is this world? What asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye. (2777-79) Certainly we can invoke Boethian wisdom as an answer to... | |
 | Church of England. Mission Theological Advisory Group - Christianity - 1996 - 214 pages
...or pees, or hate, or love, Al this is reuled by the sighte above ... What is this world? What asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compagnie19 Figure 7 The Hereford Mappa Mundi 5.28 In such a worldview, the afterlife... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 324 pages
...myn hertes queene! Allas, my wyf, Myn hertes lady, endere of my lyf! What is this world? What asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye. 2780 Fare wel, my sweete foo, myn Emelye! And softe taak me in youre... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...ended his life by jumping off a bridge over the Mississippi River. 2 What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Alione, withouten any compaignye. GEOFFREY CHAUCER, (1340-1400) British poet. The Canterbury Tales,... | |
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