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... Chaucer and Gower in the same age , nor has it been used by any poet since the end of that century . The great name of early English literature is Geoffrey Chaucer , who died in 1400 ; and the Canterbury Tales is the most perfect , as ...
... Chaucer and Gower in the same age , nor has it been used by any poet since the end of that century . The great name of early English literature is Geoffrey Chaucer , who died in 1400 ; and the Canterbury Tales is the most perfect , as ...
Page 42
... Chaucer , was for a long time held in equal , or even greater , estimation . To the first half of the fifteenth century belongs John Lydgate , a copious writer and fluent versifier , but of little poetic talent . Among the prose ...
... Chaucer , was for a long time held in equal , or even greater , estimation . To the first half of the fifteenth century belongs John Lydgate , a copious writer and fluent versifier , but of little poetic talent . Among the prose ...
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... Chaucer is quite variable . Such words as honoúr , difficultée , penánce , vanquésh , manére ( manner ) , peraventúre , conseíl ( counsel ) , viáge ( voyage ) , etc. , he often gives , as here marked , with the French accent ; yet not ...
... Chaucer is quite variable . Such words as honoúr , difficultée , penánce , vanquésh , manére ( manner ) , peraventúre , conseíl ( counsel ) , viáge ( voyage ) , etc. , he often gives , as here marked , with the French accent ; yet not ...
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... Chaucer's poetry , pronouncing the unaccented e as the verse requires , and as it was actually pronounced in the poet's time , without regretting that a hurried and slurring pronunciation of our fathers should have destroyed this ...
... Chaucer's poetry , pronouncing the unaccented e as the verse requires , and as it was actually pronounced in the poet's time , without regretting that a hurried and slurring pronunciation of our fathers should have destroyed this ...
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... Chaucer . His long historical poem , entitled The Bruce , was followed in the early part of the next century by the Originale Chronykil of Andrew of Wynton , and in its latter part by the Wallace of Henry the Minstrel , often called ...
... Chaucer . His long historical poem , entitled The Bruce , was followed in the early part of the next century by the Originale Chronykil of Andrew of Wynton , and in its latter part by the Wallace of Henry the Minstrel , often called ...
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