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... followed by less than a hundred years the masterpieces . of the transitional English tongue , which were still green in the popular memory , and which in its zeal for popu- larity it hastened to incorporate among its productions . The ...
... followed by less than a hundred years the masterpieces . of the transitional English tongue , which were still green in the popular memory , and which in its zeal for popu- larity it hastened to incorporate among its productions . The ...
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... followed by The Canterbury Tales , a large folio of 374 leaves . In 1480 John Lettou , a Lithuanian , started printing in Lon- don with a smaller and neater type than Caxton had used . His work stimulated Caxton to fresh efforts . In ...
... followed by The Canterbury Tales , a large folio of 374 leaves . In 1480 John Lettou , a Lithuanian , started printing in Lon- don with a smaller and neater type than Caxton had used . His work stimulated Caxton to fresh efforts . In ...
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... followed by The House of Fame , a shorter poem of about a thousand octosyllabic couplets , in which more than in any other of his poems Chaucer seems to derive his inspiration from Dante . Next comes The Legend of Good Women , a misty ...
... followed by The House of Fame , a shorter poem of about a thousand octosyllabic couplets , in which more than in any other of his poems Chaucer seems to derive his inspiration from Dante . Next comes The Legend of Good Women , a misty ...
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... followed Nature everywhere , but he is never so bold as to go beyond her . He knew where to leave off . As for his versification , he regarded it pre- sumably as being accommodated to the ears of his own time , somewhat uncouth , but ...
... followed Nature everywhere , but he is never so bold as to go beyond her . He knew where to leave off . As for his versification , he regarded it pre- sumably as being accommodated to the ears of his own time , somewhat uncouth , but ...
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... followed his death : the two best of these are the Ellesmere MS . and Harleian MS . 7334 in the British Museum . There are numerous diversities among the manuscripts , due to the normal corrupting influences to which the work , whether ...
... followed his death : the two best of these are the Ellesmere MS . and Harleian MS . 7334 in the British Museum . There are numerous diversities among the manuscripts , due to the normal corrupting influences to which the work , whether ...
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Page 98 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Page 400 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 361 - Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
Page 240 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Page 182 - 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 165 - 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 222 - 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 382 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me...
Page 249 - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth and overseen his owne writings; but since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right...
Page 217 - 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.