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 61
... cause of his grief . Perhaps a little before , perhaps a little after , the Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse , Chaucer translated from the French of Guillaume de Deguilleville a hymn to the Blessed Virgin , in which the stanzas began with ...
... cause of his grief . Perhaps a little before , perhaps a little after , the Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse , Chaucer translated from the French of Guillaume de Deguilleville a hymn to the Blessed Virgin , in which the stanzas began with ...
Page 65
... caused Apollo to turn all crows black ; and then , as Canterbury comes in sight , the Pilgrims bethink them of their ... cause discouraged the poet , and he laid his bulky manuscript aside , unfinished . As we have seen , he lost his ...
... caused Apollo to turn all crows black ; and then , as Canterbury comes in sight , the Pilgrims bethink them of their ... cause discouraged the poet , and he laid his bulky manuscript aside , unfinished . As we have seen , he lost his ...
Page 69
... cause had him to triste , Made him swich feste , it joye was to sene , Whan she his trouthe and clene entente wiste ... causes him to escape . 2 A rescue In the end , as we all know , Criseyde failed to fight against the stress of ...
... cause had him to triste , Made him swich feste , it joye was to sene , Whan she his trouthe and clene entente wiste ... causes him to escape . 2 A rescue In the end , as we all know , Criseyde failed to fight against the stress of ...
Page 74
... caused him to abandon the French and Latin in which he had previously written , for English , he may be ranked with those whom Chaucer in- fluenced , though not in the same sense as Lydgate and Hoccleve . He came of the Kentish Gowers ...
... caused him to abandon the French and Latin in which he had previously written , for English , he may be ranked with those whom Chaucer in- fluenced , though not in the same sense as Lydgate and Hoccleve . He came of the Kentish Gowers ...
Page 75
... cause , if that ye rede , I wolde go the middel wey And write a boke betwene the twey , Somwhat of lust , somwhat of lore , pleasure That , of the lasse or of the more , either of poor or rich . Som man may like of that I write . And ...
... cause , if that ye rede , I wolde go the middel wey And write a boke betwene the twey , Somwhat of lust , somwhat of lore , pleasure That , of the lasse or of the more , either of poor or rich . Som man may like of that I write . And ...
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