The Quarterly Review, Volumen180William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1895 |
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... Troilus ' and of the Canterbury Tales , ' are not fitted to take the place of a critical text . After these , the most important and most delicate part of the work remained to be done ; it has been at last achieved in this edition . The ...
... Troilus ' and of the Canterbury Tales , ' are not fitted to take the place of a critical text . After these , the most important and most delicate part of the work remained to be done ; it has been at last achieved in this edition . The ...
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... Troilus . ' Mr. Skeat's edition has removed these offences , and in it the writings of the great master of verse may be read without the impertinences of Adam Scriveyn ' and his successors . 6 The art of Chaucer in some of its qualities ...
... Troilus . ' Mr. Skeat's edition has removed these offences , and in it the writings of the great master of verse may be read without the impertinences of Adam Scriveyn ' and his successors . 6 The art of Chaucer in some of its qualities ...
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... Troilus ' ends with a prayer for the preservation of his book : - C ' that noon miswryte thee Ne thee mysmetre for defaute of tonge . ' This anxiety and this grievance of Chaucer were caused by This The Poetry of Chaucer . 523.
... Troilus ' ends with a prayer for the preservation of his book : - C ' that noon miswryte thee Ne thee mysmetre for defaute of tonge . ' This anxiety and this grievance of Chaucer were caused by This The Poetry of Chaucer . 523.
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... Troilus , ' iii . 584 , has amused and perplexed many etymologists . Mr. Skeat spoils the fun by reading the manuscripts with attention ; he finds the word there to be really goosish , ' a word equally expressive and more intelligible ...
... Troilus , ' iii . 584 , has amused and perplexed many etymologists . Mr. Skeat spoils the fun by reading the manuscripts with attention ; he finds the word there to be really goosish , ' a word equally expressive and more intelligible ...
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... Troilus , ' in the Legend of Good Women , ' in the most notable parts of the Canterbury Tales , ' he has carried on the commonplace matter to a higher form , and has given individuality to the commonplace without destroying its generic ...
... Troilus , ' in the Legend of Good Women , ' in the most notable parts of the Canterbury Tales , ' he has carried on the commonplace matter to a higher form , and has given individuality to the commonplace without destroying its generic ...
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