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Chaucer Memorial Lectures, 1900 Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) Visualização completa - 1900 |
Chaucer Memorial Lectures, 1900 Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) Visualização completa - 1900 |
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Página 52 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 161 - Surpass all science and all utterance; For sometimes, Lady ! ere men pray to thee Thou goest before...
Página xi - A third class is like a jelly-bag which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gem.
Página 115 - Now ware you, sirs, and let this man have place. He in the waist is shapen as well as I ; This were a puppet in an arm to embrace For any woman ; small and fair of face ; He seemeth elvish by his countenance, For unto no wight doth he dalliance.
Página 89 - Baar of thy body, and dweltest mayden pure. The creatour of every creature. Assembled is in thee magnificence...
Página xxii - To forthren me somwhat in my labour, Whether ye ben with the leef or with the flour.
Página 92 - Quell' Uno e Due e Tre che sempre vive, E regna sempre in Tre e Due e Uno, Non circonscritto, e tutto circonscrive, 30 Tre volte era cantato da ciascuno Di quegli spirti con tal melodia, Ch' ad ogni merto saria giusto muno.
Página 87 - Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio, umile ed alta piu che creatura, termine fisso d'eterno consiglio, tu se' colei, che 1'umana natura nobilitasti si che il suo Fattore non disdegno di farsi sua fattura. Nel ventre tuo si raccese 1'amore, per lo cui caldo nell...
Página 46 - The Paston Letters are an important testimony to the progressive condition of Society, and come in as a precious link in the chain of moral history of England, which they alone in this period supply.
Página 167 - ... of gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned.