The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The house of fame:The legend of good women: The treatise on the astrolabe: with an account of the sources of the Canterbury tales.[v. 4] The Canterbury tales: text

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Clarendon Press, 1894 - 504 pages
 

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Page 306 - Teseide, i. 2) he speaks of it as ' — una storia antica, Tanto negli anni riposta e nascosa, Che Latino autor non par ne dica, Per quel ch'io senta, in libro alcuna cosa.
Page 71 - The herte in-with my sorowful brest yow dredeth, And loveth so sore, that ye ben verrayly The maistresse of my wit, and nothing I. My word, my werk, is knit so in your bonde, That, as an harpe obeyeth to the honde...
Page 470 - This learned and curious discourse is well worth perusal ; but the reader will probably be led to remark, that Warton does not after all tell us whence Chaucer drew his materials, but only proves that he drew them from some Arabian source.
Page 254 - Muses! O high genius! now vouchsafe Your aid. O mind! that all I saw hast kept Safe in a written record, here thy worth And eminent endowments come to proof. 1 thus began : " Bard ! thou who art my guide, Consider well, if virtue be in me Sufficient, ere to this high enterprise Thou trust me. Thou hast told that Silvius' sire,1 Yet clothed in corruptible flesh, among The immortal tribes had entrance, and was there Sensibly present.
Page 14 - Saw he, which is long to telle. Which who-so willeth for to knowe, He moste rede many a rowe On Virgile or on Claudian, Or Daunte, that hit telle can.
Page 404 - Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie, found after his death in his Cell at Silexedra, bequeathed to Philautus sonnes noursed up with their father in England, Fetcht from the Canaries by TL, gent., Imprinted by T.
Page lxix - Entertainments, where a translation which I have now before me has the words — ' instead of putting water into the basin, he [the barber] took a very handsome astrolabe out of his case, and went very gravely out of my room to the middle of the yard, to take the height of the sun'; on which passage Mr. Lane has a note (chap. v. note 57) which Mr. Brae quotes at length in his edition. There is also at least one version of a treatise in Greek, entitled vtp\ TTJj TOV aorpoX1ijSou xpqo-ewt, by Johannes...
Page 69 - As she, that is of alle floures flour, Fulfilled of al vertu and honour, And ever y-lyke fair, and fresh of hewe; And I love hit, and ever y-lyke newe, And ever shal, til that myn herte dye; Al swere I nat, of this I wol nat lye, Ther loved no wight hotter in his lyve.
Page 472 - Of a surety he [Kublai Khan] hath good right to such a title [that of Kaan or Emperor], for all men know for a certain truth that he is the most potent man, as regards forces and lands and treasure, that existeth in the world, or ever hath existed from the time of our first father Adam until this day;' Marco Polo, ed. Yule, i. 295. Cf. Sq. Ta. 14. ' The empire fell to him because of his ability and valour and great worth, as was right and reason ; ' id. i. 296. Cf. Sq. Ta. 16. ' He had often been...
Page 297 - The present passage was imitated and amplified by the authoress of The Flower and the Leaf, beginning at 1. 49 : — 'a pleasaunt herber well ywrought, That benched was, and with turfes new, Freshly turved, wherof the grene gras, So small, so thicke, so short, so fresh of hew, That most like unto green woll wot I it was ; The hegge also, that yede in compas And closed in all the grene herbere, With sicamour was set and eglatere

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