English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 sivua |
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... Chaucer whose fault is their excess of conceits , and those ill sorted . An author is not to write all he can , but only all he ought . Having observed this redundancy in Chaucer ( as it is an easy matter for a man of ordinary parts to ...
... Chaucer whose fault is their excess of conceits , and those ill sorted . An author is not to write all he can , but only all he ought . Having observed this redundancy in Chaucer ( as it is an easy matter for a man of ordinary parts to ...
Sivu 230
... Chaucer than myself . I have translated some part of his works , only that I might perpetuate his memory , or at least refresh it , amongst my country- men . If I have altered him anywhere for the better , I must at the same time ...
... Chaucer than myself . I have translated some part of his works , only that I might perpetuate his memory , or at least refresh it , amongst my country- men . If I have altered him anywhere for the better , I must at the same time ...
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... Chaucer's side ; for though the Englishman has borrowed many tales from the Italian , yet it appears that those of Boccace were not generally of his own making , but taken from authors of former ages , and by him only modelled ; so that ...
... Chaucer's side ; for though the Englishman has borrowed many tales from the Italian , yet it appears that those of Boccace were not generally of his own making , but taken from authors of former ages , and by him only modelled ; so that ...
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