Lectures on the English PoetsDent, 1908 - 327 páginas |
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... story of Griselda is in Boccaccio ; but the Clerk of Oxenforde , who tells it , professes to have learned in from Petrarch . This story has gone all over Europe , and has passed into a proverb . In spite of the barbarity of the ...
... story of Griselda is in Boccaccio ; but the Clerk of Oxenforde , who tells it , professes to have learned in from Petrarch . This story has gone all over Europe , and has passed into a proverb . In spite of the barbarity of the ...
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... story . The Cock and the Fox is also excellent for lively strokes of cha- racter and satire . January and May is not so good as some of the others . Chaucer's versifi- cation , considering the time at which he wrote , and that ...
... story . The Cock and the Fox is also excellent for lively strokes of cha- racter and satire . January and May is not so good as some of the others . Chaucer's versifi- cation , considering the time at which he wrote , and that ...
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... story of the watches which the worthy Dr Primrose demolished so deliberately with the poker - for the knowledge of the guinea which the Miss Primroses kept unchanged in their pockets - the adventure of the picture of the Vicar's family ...
... story of the watches which the worthy Dr Primrose demolished so deliberately with the poker - for the knowledge of the guinea which the Miss Primroses kept unchanged in their pockets - the adventure of the picture of the Vicar's family ...
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