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Sivu 510
... Ovid , and Chaucer ; con- sidering the former only in relation to the latter . With Ovid ended the Golden Age of the Roman 300 tongue : from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began . The manners of the poets were not unlike both ...
... Ovid , and Chaucer ; con- sidering the former only in relation to the latter . With Ovid ended the Golden Age of the Roman 300 tongue : from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began . The manners of the poets were not unlike both ...
Sivu 511
... Ovid and Chaucer , of whom I have little more to say . Both of them being built on the inventions of other men ; yet since Chaucer had something of his own , as The Wife of Bath's Tale , The Cock and the Fox , which I have translated ...
... Ovid and Chaucer , of whom I have little more to say . Both of them being built on the inventions of other men ; yet since Chaucer had something of his own , as The Wife of Bath's Tale , The Cock and the Fox , which I have translated ...
Sivu 512
... Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little less than mad for prefer- ring the Englishman to the Roman : Yet , with their leave , I must presume to say , that the things they admire are only glittering ...
... Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little less than mad for prefer- ring the Englishman to the Roman : Yet , with their leave , I must presume to say , that the things they admire are only glittering ...
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PREFACE | ix |
UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS | 4 |
TO MY HONORD FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD | 11 |
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