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... story of " Snuffy Davy , " " with the scent of a sleuth- hound and the snap of a bull - dog " for a rare volume on a bookstall . " Snuffy Davy bought The Game of Chess , 1474 , the first book ever printed in England , from a stall in ...
... story of " Snuffy Davy , " " with the scent of a sleuth- hound and the snap of a bull - dog " for a rare volume on a bookstall . " Snuffy Davy bought The Game of Chess , 1474 , the first book ever printed in England , from a stall in ...
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... story was based for the most part upon the mediaval Troy story which was subsequently utilised by Shakespeare and by Dryden . But it vivifies the beauty and passion of Criseyde and the hu- morous side of Sir Pandarus in a manner which ...
... story was based for the most part upon the mediaval Troy story which was subsequently utilised by Shakespeare and by Dryden . But it vivifies the beauty and passion of Criseyde and the hu- morous side of Sir Pandarus in a manner which ...
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... story and carry it out in due proportion . He derived many stories from him , and he is always at his best when he is put upon his mettle by Boccaccio . From Dante , too , he learnt many details of artistic workmanship . But his main ...
... story and carry it out in due proportion . He derived many stories from him , and he is always at his best when he is put upon his mettle by Boccaccio . From Dante , too , he learnt many details of artistic workmanship . But his main ...
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... stories should be such as the speaker might naturally have told . Each tale was suited to the teller . The young ... story of Griselda . The tales of the gentles are full of high sentiment and pathos . Between times the narrator is ...
... stories should be such as the speaker might naturally have told . Each tale was suited to the teller . The young ... story of Griselda . The tales of the gentles are full of high sentiment and pathos . Between times the narrator is ...
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... stories , but exclude all save equals and friends . By choosing a pilgrimage , Chaucer puts us on a plane where all men are equal . His cluster of holiday - makers represents a microcosm of Eng- lish society in the latter part of the ...
... stories , but exclude all save equals and friends . By choosing a pilgrimage , Chaucer puts us on a plane where all men are equal . His cluster of holiday - makers represents a microcosm of Eng- lish society in the latter part of the ...
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Page 322 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 375 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 215 - For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill-usage he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Page 180 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes...
Page 163 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Page 220 - This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 267 - Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule...
Page 382 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me...
Page 215 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
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