 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Country life - 1912 - 422 pages
...extracting from them heavy ransoms. Chaucer's knight is a companion portrait to that of the squire. He was " A worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalry, Truth and honour, freedom and courtesy. Full worthy was he in his Lorde's war, And thereto... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 508 pages
...qualities are well expressed by Chaucer in the Prologue to his Knight's Tale (1. 43-50; 67-72): "A knight there was. and that a worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riilen out he loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy. Full worthy was he in his lord's... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - Freemasonry - 1916 - 504 pages
...qualities are well expressed by Chaucer in the Prologue to his Knight's Tale (I. 43-50; 67-72): "A knight there was, and that a worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riden out he loved chivalry. Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy. Full worthy was he in his lord's war And thereto had... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Positivism - 1918 - 468 pages
...not load thy conscience with imposts and taxes." Read Chaucer's picture of the true Knight : A knight there was, and that a worthy man : That from the time that he first began To riden out, he lovede chivalry Trouth and honour, freedom and courtesy And tho' that he was worthy, he was wise, And... | |
 | Josephine Heermans Greenwood - History, Ancient - 1921 - 480 pages
...the poet Chaucer in his "Canterbury -Tales" in describing a Knight: "A Knight there was and that n worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy. Full worthy was he in his Lordc's war, And thereto... | |
 | John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart - Louisiana - 1924 - 744 pages
...of Francis Tillou Nicholls. This illustrious name suggests a portrait drawn by Chaucer : " 'A Knight there was, and that a worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalry, Truth and honour, freedom and courtesy. Full worthy was he in his lorde's war. And ever honour'd... | |
 | Matti Rissanen - Foreign Language Study - 1992 - 820 pages
...ârian ne wolde (cf. Ihalainen 1980: 188) (13) 'A knight ther was, and that a worthy man, that fro the time that he first began to riden out, he loved chivalrie' (From: Chaucer, "Knight's Tale", cited in Geoghegan 1975: 47) (14) '...ever deseryng to her of your... | |
 | Lee Patterson - Literary Collections - 2007 - 253 pages
...Chaucer's own Knight possesses a high moral character of an archaic (if not totally imaginary) kind: "fro the time that he first began / To riden out, he loved chivalrie, / Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie" (44—46). He combines this idealism of outlook and behavior... | |
 | John Harvey Francis - English literature - 1929 - 264 pages
...personality from the opening paragraph? Chapter III TWO CHARACTERS FROM CHAUCER'S PROLOGUE A KNIGHT there was, and that a worthy man, That from the time...began To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Truth and honour, freedom and courtesie. Full worthy was he in his lordes werre, 5 And thereto had he ridden... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 388 pages
...woulden ride. The chambers and the stables weren wide, And well we weren eased at the best.* * * A knight there was, and that a worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.* * * He was of port as meek as is a maid, And never... | |
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A KNIGHT there was, and that a worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalry, Truth and honour, freedom and courtesy. 
