The Preface to the FablesUniversity Press, 1912 - 36 sivua |
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... Chaucer , Ovid , and Boccaccio , with a poetical epistle to his cousin , John Driden , and the second Ode on St Cecilia's Day , better known as Alexander's Feast . It is dedicated in a prose epistle to the Duke of Ormond , and contains ...
... Chaucer , Ovid , and Boccaccio , with a poetical epistle to his cousin , John Driden , and the second Ode on St Cecilia's Day , better known as Alexander's Feast . It is dedicated in a prose epistle to the Duke of Ormond , and contains ...
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... , and vigour , suffused with genial humour , and lighted up by occasional flashes of vivid satire . One of the most interesting and instructive the appreciation of Chaucer , as showing Dryden's infallible instinct vi INTRODUCTION.
... , and vigour , suffused with genial humour , and lighted up by occasional flashes of vivid satire . One of the most interesting and instructive the appreciation of Chaucer , as showing Dryden's infallible instinct vi INTRODUCTION.
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... Chaucer than himself . If he has altered him anywhere for the better , he acknowledges he could have done nothing without him . Chaucer , he says , is a perpetual fountain of good sense , and speaks properly on all subjects ; he knows ...
... Chaucer than himself . If he has altered him anywhere for the better , he acknowledges he could have done nothing without him . Chaucer , he says , is a perpetual fountain of good sense , and speaks properly on all subjects ; he knows ...
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... Chaucer's language in the elegant and ornate court dress of Restoration rhetoric . In judging Dryden's version of Chaucer we should , as Pope urges , " regard the writer's end , " and read it " with the same spirit that its author writ ...
... Chaucer's language in the elegant and ornate court dress of Restoration rhetoric . In judging Dryden's version of Chaucer we should , as Pope urges , " regard the writer's end , " and read it " with the same spirit that its author writ ...
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... Chaucer over Ovid . His disparagement of the language of Chaucer is due partly to his want of familiarity with Middle English , partly to the vicious taste of the period , which regarded dignity , polish , and refinement as essential ...
... Chaucer over Ovid . His disparagement of the language of Chaucer is due partly to his want of familiarity with Middle English , partly to the vicious taste of the period , which regarded dignity , polish , and refinement as essential ...
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