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... Fame ......... 43 The Canterbury Tales ....... 45 The Tales .... Chaucer's Life ... His Works .... 47 Time ...... ...... 68 The Growth of Population ... 69 London in 1600 ...... Learned Women .. Surrey .... 71 72 74 Sir Thomas Wyatt ...
... Fame ......... 43 The Canterbury Tales ....... 45 The Tales .... Chaucer's Life ... His Works .... 47 Time ...... ...... 68 The Growth of Population ... 69 London in 1600 ...... Learned Women .. Surrey .... 71 72 74 Sir Thomas Wyatt ...
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... Fame , the finest of his imaginative pieces . From 1384 to 1390 , or rather 1400 , he becomes chiefly an English poet , painting the busy world around him in the Canterbury Tales , and classic scenes in the Legend of Good Women . It is ...
... Fame , the finest of his imaginative pieces . From 1384 to 1390 , or rather 1400 , he becomes chiefly an English poet , painting the busy world around him in the Canterbury Tales , and classic scenes in the Legend of Good Women . It is ...
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... cold . The nightingale : To the Lady of the Leafe fortheright She flew , and set her on her hond softly . But the followers of Flora , the Lady of the Flower , are THE HOUSE OF FAME . 43 Such folk that loved 42 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... cold . The nightingale : To the Lady of the Leafe fortheright She flew , and set her on her hond softly . But the followers of Flora , the Lady of the Flower , are THE HOUSE OF FAME . 43 Such folk that loved 42 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... Fame . - In this poem , Chaucer has reached a higher strain of thought than in his common themes , and with almost epic grandeur surveys the va- rious followers of fame . He is borne aloft in The House of Fame.
... Fame . - In this poem , Chaucer has reached a higher strain of thought than in his common themes , and with almost epic grandeur surveys the va- rious followers of fame . He is borne aloft in The House of Fame.
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... Fame dispensed her immortal honors , drove off the unworthy who sought a lasting re- nown , was surrounded by the statues of Ho- mer , Virgil , Lucan , Stace , and even " Eng- lish Galfride , " or Geoffrey of Monmouth , Josephus , and ...
... Fame dispensed her immortal honors , drove off the unworthy who sought a lasting re- nown , was surrounded by the statues of Ho- mer , Virgil , Lucan , Stace , and even " Eng- lish Galfride , " or Geoffrey of Monmouth , Josephus , and ...
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