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 - English literature |
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... CHAUCER , 11 EARL OF SURREY , 46 • What is in Heaven , 11 Prisoner in Windsor , he recounteth his Pleasure there ... GEOFFREY CHAUCER , On Riches , JOHN WICKLIFFE , The Magnificat , 283 II * 88 Characteristic of an Englishman . By Andrew ...
... CHAUCER , 11 EARL OF SURREY , 46 • What is in Heaven , 11 Prisoner in Windsor , he recounteth his Pleasure there ... GEOFFREY CHAUCER , On Riches , JOHN WICKLIFFE , The Magnificat , 283 II * 88 Characteristic of an Englishman . By Andrew ...
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... GEOFFREY CHAUCER . With these imperfect models as his only native guides , arose our first great author , GEOFFREY CHAUCER , distinctively known as the Father of English poetry . Though our language had risen into importance with the ...
... GEOFFREY CHAUCER . With these imperfect models as his only native guides , arose our first great author , GEOFFREY CHAUCER , distinctively known as the Father of English poetry . Though our language had risen into importance with the ...
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... 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 inscription is to be found on the tired from Florence during ...
... 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 inscription is to be found on the tired from Florence during ...
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... GEOFFREY CHAUCER . how ye shulen behave you in gathering of your riches , and in what manner ye shulen usen ' em . First , ye shulen geten ' em withouten great desire , by good leisure , sokingly , and not over hastily , for a man that ...
... GEOFFREY CHAUCER . how ye shulen behave you in gathering of your riches , and in what manner ye shulen usen ' em . First , ye shulen geten ' em withouten great desire , by good leisure , sokingly , and not over hastily , for a man that ...
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... Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower , in the time of Richard II . , and after them of John Scogan and John Lydgate , monk of Bury , our said tongue was brought to an excellent pass , notwithstanding that it never came unto the type of ...
... Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower , in the time of Richard II . , and after them of John Scogan and John Lydgate , monk of Bury , our said tongue was brought to an excellent pass , notwithstanding that it never came unto the type of ...
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afterwards Anglo-Saxon anon beauty Ben Jonson Cædmon Cæsar called Canterbury Tales Chaucer coude court dance death delight doth dread Earl England English eyes Faery Queen fair Fawdon fear flowers frae GEOFFREY CHAUCER Geoffrey of Monmouth give gold grace gude hand hast hath heard heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour Jack Cade JOHN king lady language Latin Layamon learned live look Lord merry micht mind mony nature never night noble Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor prose Queen quoth reign rich richt Robert Curthose saith Saracens Scotland Shakspeare sing song soul sould Discretion Spenser St Serf sweet tell thee ther thine thing thou thought tongue translation unto verse wald Wallace wanton wassail weel Wickliffe wind withouten words writers youth