Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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Page 54
... queen in heaven ; and when the father cannot understand how so little a child can have so rich a reward , the parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard is told to enlighten him . Much of the poem is taken up with the glories of an ...
... queen in heaven ; and when the father cannot understand how so little a child can have so rich a reward , the parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard is told to enlighten him . Much of the poem is taken up with the glories of an ...
Page 60
... queen's bedchamber . In 1372 John of Gaunt granted her a pension of £ 10 , and in 1374 this same pension was regranted to Geoffrey and Philippa Chaucer for good services rendered by them to the said Duke , his consort , and his mother ...
... queen's bedchamber . In 1372 John of Gaunt granted her a pension of £ 10 , and in 1374 this same pension was regranted to Geoffrey and Philippa Chaucer for good services rendered by them to the said Duke , his consort , and his mother ...
Page 63
... queen , produced the brightest and daintiest of courtly allegories . When the Troilus was finished Chaucer turned to his Divina Commedia , and in the Hous of Fame endeavoured to describe a journey with a heaven- sent guide , in which ...
... queen , produced the brightest and daintiest of courtly allegories . When the Troilus was finished Chaucer turned to his Divina Commedia , and in the Hous of Fame endeavoured to describe a journey with a heaven- sent guide , in which ...
Page 81
... queen at Woodstock must apply to Joan of Navarre , who held the manor of Woodstock as part of her dower , and that the poem must have been written between 1403 and 1410 , a date quite in keeping with the purity with which the fragrance ...
... queen at Woodstock must apply to Joan of Navarre , who held the manor of Woodstock as part of her dower , and that the poem must have been written between 1403 and 1410 , a date quite in keeping with the purity with which the fragrance ...
Page 112
... queen's funeral . On 10th January 1506 Henry VII . gave him ten shil- lings as a reward for ' a ballett , ' and in the course of the same year he dedicated to the king his Pastime of Pleasure . Three years later this was published by ...
... queen's funeral . On 10th January 1506 Henry VII . gave him ten shil- lings as a reward for ' a ballett , ' and in the course of the same year he dedicated to the king his Pastime of Pleasure . Three years later this was published by ...
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