The Chaucer Canon: With a Discussion of the Works Associated with the Name of Geoffrey Chaucer |
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7-line stanzas Adjectives Anelida appears attributed to Chaucer Balade Boethius Book C. A. BUCHHEIM cæsura Camb Canterbury Canterbury Tales Caxton Chaucer's form Chaucerian Clanvowe close ē Complaint copy Court of Love dative dissyllabic Editor English Envoy examples Fairfax 16 Fragment French genuine gerund Glossary grammar grene Harl Hoccleve Hous of Fame Introduction and Notes Jack Upland Lady Latin lines Lydgate Lydgate's M.A. Crown 8vo M.A. Extra fcap M.A. Second Edition metre Minor Poems monosyllabic Northern occurs origin Ormulum Parlement of Foules piece Plowman's Tale plural Primer printed Prol Prologue Proverbs reprinted rime-tests rimes Romaunt scansion Scogan Speght Squieres Tale stiff covers Stowe substantives suffix syllable Tale of Beryn Tale of Gamelyn Thomas Usk Thynne Thynne's Translation Trin Troilus Tyrwhitt verb W. W. SKEAT words Wright written
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Page 95 - Englissh, whiche evermore him besieth and travayleth right sore my name 250 to encrese (wherfore al that willen me good owe to do him worship and reverence bothe ; trewly, his better ne his pere in scole of my rules coude I never fynde) — he (quod she), in a tretis that he made of my servant Troilus, hath this mater touched, and at the ful this question assoyled.
Page 3 - ... was either not known or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame fur want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.
Page 97 - Tale was omitted from that edition for some such reason as is alleged, though printed separately at the same press. From this separate edition (of which the only remaining copy, formerly Askew's, Farmer's, and Heber's, is now at Britwell) it was reprinted in W. Thynne's second edition of Chaucer's works in 1542, and separately in octavo by W. Powell, about 1547-8.— H. Bradshaw.
Page xii - Heere is ended the book of the tales of Caunterbury, compiled by Geffrey Chaucer, of whos soule Jhesu Crist have mercy. Amen.
Page 98 - Tale ; but, as I cannot understand that there is the least ground of evidence, either external or internal, for believing it to be a work of Chaucer's, I have not admitted it into this Edition.
Page 7 - Fifth Edition, Revised, with the Section on the Nineteenth Century greatly enlarged [Crown 8vo, 1or.
Page 6 - LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER A CHIEFTAIN, to the Highlands bound, Cries, "Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound, To row us o'er the ferry.
Page 21 - ... latter part or middle of the fifteenth century, when the language was very much changed from that of Chaucer's time. Tyrwhitt's entire ignorance of the grammar of the language of Chaucer is exhibited in almost every line, few of which could possibly have been written by the poet as he has printed them. It need only be stated, as an instance of this, that in the preterites of what the modern Teutonic philologists term the strong verbs (which our common grammarians distinguish by the unfortunate...
Page 23 - MS. in correcting the two words in italics to morality; and in cases like this I have not thought it necessary to load the book with notes pointing out the alterations. In other instances, where a reading in the Harl. MS., although affording a tolerable meaning, has appeared to me a decided bad one, I have changed it for a better, always (when there is room for the least doubt) giving the original reading of the manuscript in a foot-note.
Page 124 - Chaucer, writing of a vain boaster, hath these words, meaning of the said shaft : — " Right well aloft, and high ye bear your head, As ye would bear the great shaft of Corn-hill.