Chaucer's Canterbury PilgrimageWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 283 páginas |
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... nature must always be more or less unsatisfactory , and that the poet's quaintness , his skilful manage- ment of minute details - in a word , the charming personnel , which pervades his poetry all through , must be largely sacrificed ...
... nature must always be more or less unsatisfactory , and that the poet's quaintness , his skilful manage- ment of minute details - in a word , the charming personnel , which pervades his poetry all through , must be largely sacrificed ...
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... nature whatever is base , and mean , and double - dealing , and op- pressive ; and the cowardly bully who unworthily uses the circumstances of his position for the pur- pose of causing unhappiness to others , along with the tools whom ...
... nature whatever is base , and mean , and double - dealing , and op- pressive ; and the cowardly bully who unworthily uses the circumstances of his position for the pur- pose of causing unhappiness to others , along with the tools whom ...
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... nature was para- mount to every other feeling , and in the enjoyment of them his heart was ever full of " revel and solas . " By the year 1367 he was married to a lady named Philippa , who was probably a relation of his own , and one of ...
... nature was para- mount to every other feeling , and in the enjoyment of them his heart was ever full of " revel and solas . " By the year 1367 he was married to a lady named Philippa , who was probably a relation of his own , and one of ...
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... nature , indicating complete absorption on his part in the subject which for the time occupied his thoughts , and much absent - mindedness towards everything else , or " elvishness , " as he himself expresses it : in fact , it fully ...
... nature , indicating complete absorption on his part in the subject which for the time occupied his thoughts , and much absent - mindedness towards everything else , or " elvishness , " as he himself expresses it : in fact , it fully ...
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... nature in all its moods , his devotion to work , his sweet and pure versification , his rich command of apt illus- tration , his open - air directness , his practical good sense , his dignified self - possession , his knowledge of the ...
... nature in all its moods , his devotion to work , his sweet and pure versification , his rich command of apt illus- tration , his open - air directness , his practical good sense , his dignified self - possession , his knowledge of the ...
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