Cyclopædia of English literature, Volumen1William and Robert Chambers, 1843 |
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... true feeling , passion , and excitement , which blind us to mere scholastic blemishes and defects . The Canterbury Tales form the best and most durable monument of Chaucer's genius . Boccaccio , in his Decameron , supposes ten persons ...
... true feeling , passion , and excitement , which blind us to mere scholastic blemishes and defects . The Canterbury Tales form the best and most durable monument of Chaucer's genius . Boccaccio , in his Decameron , supposes ten persons ...
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... true good man there was there of religion , Pious and poor - the parson of a town . But rich he was in holy thought and work ; And thereto a right learned man ; a clerk That Christ's pure gospel would sincerely preach , And his ...
... true good man there was there of religion , Pious and poor - the parson of a town . But rich he was in holy thought and work ; And thereto a right learned man ; a clerk That Christ's pure gospel would sincerely preach , And his ...
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... true , and full of alms - deed , as Jesu was , in whom they trow ; but they ben all the contrary , and ever inclined to the evil , and to don evil . And they ben so covetous , that for a little silver they sellen ' eir daughters , ' eir ...
... true , and full of alms - deed , as Jesu was , in whom they trow ; but they ben all the contrary , and ever inclined to the evil , and to don evil . And they ben so covetous , that for a little silver they sellen ' eir daughters , ' eir ...
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... true love or none ! He is most true and stedfast paramour , And love is lost but upon him alone . The Merle said , Why put God so great beauty In ladies , with sic womanly having , But gif he would that they suld lovit be ? To love eke ...
... true love or none ! He is most true and stedfast paramour , And love is lost but upon him alone . The Merle said , Why put God so great beauty In ladies , with sic womanly having , But gif he would that they suld lovit be ? To love eke ...
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... true belief , That this life doth assuage ; Bids thee lay hand , and feel Them hanging on my chin . The which do write two ages past , The third now coming in . Hang up , therefore , the bit Of thy young wanton time ; And thou that ...
... true belief , That this life doth assuage ; Bids thee lay hand , and feel Them hanging on my chin . The which do write two ages past , The third now coming in . Hang up , therefore , the bit Of thy young wanton time ; And thou that ...
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Página 108 - books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ;
Página 308 - replied, and touch'd my trembling ears; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in
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Página 169 - there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only
Página 306 - meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd
Página 188 - show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this— That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. Merchant
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Página 200 - Place«. » The Turk. Choice nymph ! the crown of chaste Diana's train, Thou beauty's lily, set in heavenly earth ; Thy fairs, uupattern'd, all perfection stain