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... passion for poetry , would have access to con- genial company . The king paid £ 16 for his ransom after the Peace of Bretigny . It may almost be said to have been an accident that Chaucer did not write in French , as his contemporary ...
... passion for poetry , would have access to con- genial company . The king paid £ 16 for his ransom after the Peace of Bretigny . It may almost be said to have been an accident that Chaucer did not write in French , as his contemporary ...
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... passion without breaking the crust , humorous pretence of incapacity when dull or difficult subjects come in the way , an eye for the picturesque , abundant supply of incident , never - failing fertility of witty suggestion - these are ...
... passion without breaking the crust , humorous pretence of incapacity when dull or difficult subjects come in the way , an eye for the picturesque , abundant supply of incident , never - failing fertility of witty suggestion - these are ...
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... passion is taken with such unhesitating faith , that it is set against and allowed to overbear otherwise plain documentary evidence of the date of Chaucer's marriage to one of the " damoiselles " of the Queen's Chamber . But why take ...
... passion is taken with such unhesitating faith , that it is set against and allowed to overbear otherwise plain documentary evidence of the date of Chaucer's marriage to one of the " damoiselles " of the Queen's Chamber . But why take ...
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... passion . And though there is a strong serious strand in the thread of Chaucer's life , coming more into promi- nence as the soft outer nap is worn off by the rubs of time , his youthful poetry contains an immense preponderance of the ...
... passion . And though there is a strong serious strand in the thread of Chaucer's life , coming more into promi- nence as the soft outer nap is worn off by the rubs of time , his youthful poetry contains an immense preponderance of the ...
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... passion and gallantry came in great measure out of Boccaccio's poem into Chaucer's . Troilus's courtship is modelled more , it seems to me , on the pursuit of the Rose . " " would be the same whether it was written HIS LIFE , CHARACTER ...
... passion and gallantry came in great measure out of Boccaccio's poem into Chaucer's . Troilus's courtship is modelled more , it seems to me , on the pursuit of the Rose . " " would be the same whether it was written HIS LIFE , CHARACTER ...
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