The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With Poems Formely Printed Withhis Or Attributed to HimG. Bell and Sons, 1906 |
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... answer . Like all other Middle - English writers , Chaucer adduces his authorities in the vaguest manner , merely citing the names of authors who were supposed to have written on the subject . The statement of Lydgate is borrowed from ...
... answer . Like all other Middle - English writers , Chaucer adduces his authorities in the vaguest manner , merely citing the names of authors who were supposed to have written on the subject . The statement of Lydgate is borrowed from ...
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... answer to the geography of Woodstock - park . " Whether Chaucer ever resided at Woodstock , as most of his biographers assert , cannot be determined , for there is no proof of the fact ; but it is evident that he could not have resided ...
... answer to the geography of Woodstock - park . " Whether Chaucer ever resided at Woodstock , as most of his biographers assert , cannot be determined , for there is no proof of the fact ; but it is evident that he could not have resided ...
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... answered him , and said , No , sir , they are not hung out for the arms of Scrope , nor painted there for these arms , but they are painted and put there by a knight of Chester , whom men call Sir Robert Grosvenor ; and that was the ...
... answered him , and said , No , sir , they are not hung out for the arms of Scrope , nor painted there for these arms , but they are painted and put there by a knight of Chester , whom men call Sir Robert Grosvenor ; and that was the ...
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... answer is , that it is both . We find in Chaucer not only the most perfect examples of strict syllabification , but by a care- ful attention to the grammatical structure of his language , we shall find that strict syllabification is the ...
... answer is , that it is both . We find in Chaucer not only the most perfect examples of strict syllabification , but by a care- ful attention to the grammatical structure of his language , we shall find that strict syllabification is the ...
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... answered anoon and said , What man , quoth he , should of his weeping stint That hath so great a causé for to weep ? Prudence answeredé , Certes well I wot Attempered weeping is no thing defended To him that sorrowful is , & c . This is ...
... answered anoon and said , What man , quoth he , should of his weeping stint That hath so great a causé for to weep ? Prudence answeredé , Certes well I wot Attempered weeping is no thing defended To him that sorrowful is , & c . This is ...
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