Cyclopædia 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, Volume 1Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 - Authors, English |
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... Canterbury Tales , simple and land . Henceforward his native style , which Spenser varied as nature itself , imbued with the results terms the pure well of English undefiled , formed of extensive experience and close observation , and a ...
... Canterbury Tales , simple and land . Henceforward his native style , which Spenser varied as nature itself , imbued with the results terms the pure well of English undefiled , formed of extensive experience and close observation , and a ...
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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 Enlumiued all Italy of poetry . · The destruction of the ...
... 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 Enlumiued all Italy of poetry . · The destruction of the ...
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... tales of successful love and licentious monks while the plague is desolating ... Canterbury . These pilgrimages were scenes of much enjoyment , and even ... Canterbury Tales form the best and most durable monument of Chaucer's genius ...
... tales of successful love and licentious monks while the plague is desolating ... Canterbury . These pilgrimages were scenes of much enjoyment , and even ... Canterbury Tales form the best and most durable monument of Chaucer's genius ...
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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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Anglo-Saxon anon beauty Ben Jonson bishop Cædmon Cæsar called Canterbury Tales Chaucer court death delight doth dread Earl England English eyes Faery Queen fair Fawdon fear flowers frae give gold grace gude hand hast hath heard heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour Jack Cade Jonson king king's lady language Layamon learning live look Lord Makbeth merry MICHAEL DRAYTON micht mind mony nature never night noble Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor praise pray prose Queen quoth racter reign rich richt Robert Curthose saith Saracens Scotland Shakspeare sing song soul sould Discretion Spenser St Serf sweet taste tell thee ther thine thing thou thought tongue translation unto verse wald Wallace wassail weel Wickliffe William wind withouten wood words writer youth