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Pagina 21
Not only is this word cockle used in Chaucer , but also in the Saxon Gospels , in
Matt . xiii . in those places where our version has tares . The Saxon form is coccel
. The word is not found in the kindred dialects . This is the more important to ...
Not only is this word cockle used in Chaucer , but also in the Saxon Gospels , in
Matt . xiii . in those places where our version has tares . The Saxon form is coccel
. The word is not found in the kindred dialects . This is the more important to ...
Pagina 28
The poet in whose works the Scottish language first displays its definite form , is
Dunbar , a younger contemporary of Chaucer . From the fifteenth to the
eighteenth centuries there was a thriving national literature in the Anglian dialect
, and the ...
The poet in whose works the Scottish language first displays its definite form , is
Dunbar , a younger contemporary of Chaucer . From the fifteenth to the
eighteenth centuries there was a thriving national literature in the Anglian dialect
, and the ...
Pagina 57
We find it in Chaucer , precisely as at present : • Seven is my chance , and thin is
cink and treye . ' Canterbury Tales , 1 2,587 . Chance itself is one of those gaming
terms , and so is hazard , which was the prominent word in the phraseology of ...
We find it in Chaucer , precisely as at present : • Seven is my chance , and thin is
cink and treye . ' Canterbury Tales , 1 2,587 . Chance itself is one of those gaming
terms , and so is hazard , which was the prominent word in the phraseology of ...
Pagina 60
Most of the transition pieces are widely distinct from the diction of Gower and
Chaucer , but this has the air of a preparation for those writers . This romance
sometimes resembles not distantly the Romaunt of the Rose . The feature which
most ...
Most of the transition pieces are widely distinct from the diction of Gower and
Chaucer , but this has the air of a preparation for those writers . This romance
sometimes resembles not distantly the Romaunt of the Rose . The feature which
most ...
Pagina 61
The fact seems to be that this translation carries us into the atmosphere of the
court ; not only by the variety and pureness of the French words in it , but also by
its metrical resemblance to that eminently courtly work , Chaucer's Romaunt of
the ...
The fact seems to be that this translation carries us into the atmosphere of the
court ; not only by the variety and pureness of the French words in it , but also by
its metrical resemblance to that eminently courtly work , Chaucer's Romaunt of
the ...
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