Chaucer's Canterbury PilgrimageWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 283 páginas |
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... appear in the approaching Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy.1 All these pictures are of very great merit , but none of them can , in clearness and impressiveness , surpass the word - painting by means of which Chaucer himself in ...
... appear in the approaching Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy.1 All these pictures are of very great merit , but none of them can , in clearness and impressiveness , surpass the word - painting by means of which Chaucer himself in ...
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... appear- ance went , he was an ornament to his order . 2 In the company there was a merry begging FRIAR , who was by no means anxious about his dignity if it stood in the way of his doing business . He had 1 He was a lord ful fat and in ...
... appear- ance went , he was an ornament to his order . 2 In the company there was a merry begging FRIAR , who was by no means anxious about his dignity if it stood in the way of his doing business . He had 1 He was a lord ful fat and in ...
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... appear in what he thought the newest fashion , and so he wore a small cap instead , on which he had sewed a vernicle to denote his trade ; while under his cap a streak of yellow hair appeared here and there , 2 long enough to flow over ...
... appear in what he thought the newest fashion , and so he wore a small cap instead , on which he had sewed a vernicle to denote his trade ; while under his cap a streak of yellow hair appeared here and there , 2 long enough to flow over ...
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... appear to be such an utter fool , that ever afterwards he was regarded by the whole town as a man out of his wits . It is sat- isfactory to read that the rascal himself came to serious grief ; but the tale , though well worked out and ...
... appear to be such an utter fool , that ever afterwards he was regarded by the whole town as a man out of his wits . It is sat- isfactory to read that the rascal himself came to serious grief ; but the tale , though well worked out and ...
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... appear in a very contemptible light . The tale is coarse in the extreme , and of no great merit . The next whom the Host called upon was the Clerk of Oxenford . " Sir Clerk , " he said , " you seem to ride along completely wrapped up in ...
... appear in a very contemptible light . The tale is coarse in the extreme , and of no great merit . The next whom the Host called upon was the Clerk of Oxenford . " Sir Clerk , " he said , " you seem to ride along completely wrapped up in ...
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