 | William Tucker Washburn - 1869 - 324 páginas
...starving quality dh$Kii honesty, ^ot looting in theyworld," etc. and Lewis reciting Chaucer's Clerk, " A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo," etc. so abhors, to commit anything to memory, which is not written with art." "The only way in which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 140 páginas
...14. While it were wholesome.—It were, subjunctive mood, because subordinate to a condition. " Al-so lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat I undertake." Canterbury Tales, Prol., line 289. 23. And could be content.—Supply I or we, as subject of could.... | |
 | John Bascom - 1874 - 348 páginas
...poorest widow, a farthing before he left. Then comes the clerk of Oxford, as yet without a benefice. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake. He had in him the spirit of scholarship, however, and preferred to have at his bed's head, twenty books... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1874 - 304 páginas
...estatly was he of governaunce, With his bargayns, and with his chevysaunce. For sothe he was a worthi man withalle, But soth to sayn, I not how men him calle. () A CLggK. ther was of Oxenford also, 185 That unto logik hadde longe i-go. As lene was his hors as is... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1877 - 288 páginas
...estatly was he of governaunce, ^ ^ With his bargayns, and with his chevysaunce. For sothe he was a worthi man withalle, But soth to sayn, I not how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, 28; That unto logik hadde longe i-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was... | |
 | Sir Alexander Grant - 1877 - 216 páginas
...in the following terms : — " A clerk there was of Oxenford also That unto logik hadde long y go : As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fast, I undertake ; But looked holwe and thereto soberlye. Ful threadbare was his overest cour-tepye.... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 654 páginas
...following specimens. The first is a passage from Chaucer's ' Canterbury Pilgrimage ': — ' A cleric ther was of Oxenforde also. That unto logike hadde long ygo. As line was Ills hors as is a rake, Anci he was not right fat 1 undertake; But looked holwe, and thereto... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 páginas
...in dette, So estatly was he of governaunce, With his bargayns, and with his chevysaunce 3. For sothe he was a worthy man withalle, But soth to sayn, I not how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe i-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 626 páginas
...in dette, So estatly was he of governaunce, With his bargayns, and with his chevysaunce*. For sothe he was a worthy man withalle, But soth to sayn, I not how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde' longe i-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 páginas
...in dette, So estatly was he of governaunce, With his bargayns, and with his chevysaunce 3. For sothe he was a worthy man withalle, But soth to sayn, I not how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe i-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not... | |
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A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also That un-to logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly. 
