Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1871 |
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... Canterbury Tales , simple and varied as nature itself , imbued with the results of extensive experience and close observation , and coloured with the genial lights of a happy tempera- ment , that had looked on the world without ...
... Canterbury Tales , simple and varied as nature itself , imbued with the results of extensive experience and close observation , and coloured with the genial lights of a happy tempera- ment , that had looked on the world without ...
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... Canterbury Tales , where the clerk of Oxford says of his tale- Learned at Padua of a worthy clerk- Francis Petrarch , the laureat poet , Hight this clerk , whose rhetoric sweet Enlumined all Italy of poetry . And right anon as I the day ...
... Canterbury Tales , where the clerk of Oxford says of his tale- Learned at Padua of a worthy clerk- Francis Petrarch , the laureat poet , Hight this clerk , whose rhetoric sweet Enlumined all Italy of poetry . And right anon as I the day ...
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... Canterbury Tales form the best and most durable monument of Chaucer's genius . Boccaccio , in his Decameron , supposes ten persons to have re - spot : " This is the inn where Geoffrey Chaucer and nine - and- hound ; and the following ...
... Canterbury Tales form the best and most durable monument of Chaucer's genius . Boccaccio , in his Decameron , supposes ten persons to have re - spot : " This is the inn where Geoffrey Chaucer and nine - and- hound ; and the following ...
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... tales of the miller and reve are coarse , but richly humorous . Dryden and Pope have ho- noured the Father of ... Canterbury Tales do not relate stories . Chaucer had not , like Boccaccio , finished his design ; for he evidently intended ...
... tales of the miller and reve are coarse , but richly humorous . Dryden and Pope have ho- noured the Father of ... Canterbury Tales do not relate stories . Chaucer had not , like Boccaccio , finished his design ; for he evidently intended ...
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... Canterbury Tales , in almost all the qualifications of a true poet . Gower . Mr Warton has happily selected a few passages from Gower , which convey a lively expression of natural feeling , and give a favourable impression of the author ...
... Canterbury Tales , in almost all the qualifications of a true poet . Gower . Mr Warton has happily selected a few passages from Gower , which convey a lively expression of natural feeling , and give a favourable impression of the author ...
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