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... picture of the perfect pastor in the Prol- ogue to the Canterbury Tales should not have been a life - sketch of Wycliffe drawn by Chancer . William Longland , or Langley ( Piers Ploughman ) .- Another noted character of the age , a tall ...
... picture of the perfect pastor in the Prol- ogue to the Canterbury Tales should not have been a life - sketch of Wycliffe drawn by Chancer . William Longland , or Langley ( Piers Ploughman ) .- Another noted character of the age , a tall ...
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... pictures of their own . But the genius of Chaucer has car- ried us back into the daily life of his distant age as vividly as if we had mixed with his familiar associates along the street of Chepe . We feel sure that in his picture there ...
... pictures of their own . But the genius of Chaucer has car- ried us back into the daily life of his distant age as vividly as if we had mixed with his familiar associates along the street of Chepe . We feel sure that in his picture there ...
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... pictures . All the barbaric images of fine dress , robes , jewels , gold , are made to lend interest to the House of Fame . Amidst the sensual vision one almost forgets that Homer and Virgil , poets and philosophers , contemned the ...
... pictures . All the barbaric images of fine dress , robes , jewels , gold , are made to lend interest to the House of Fame . Amidst the sensual vision one almost forgets that Homer and Virgil , poets and philosophers , contemned the ...
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... of his reflec- tions and his pictures that Chaucer excels . He is the master of the poetry of common life ; and it is difficult to see how , without THE KNIGHT'S TALE . 47 a Chaucer , there could 46 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... of his reflec- tions and his pictures that Chaucer excels . He is the master of the poetry of common life ; and it is difficult to see how , without THE KNIGHT'S TALE . 47 a Chaucer , there could 46 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... picture is shown of that fair palace built by the good Duke Humphrey of Gloucester , which became the favorite home of the later Tudors where Henry VIII . brought several of his ill - fated wives , where Mary and Eliz- abeth were born ...
... picture is shown of that fair palace built by the good Duke Humphrey of Gloucester , which became the favorite home of the later Tudors where Henry VIII . brought several of his ill - fated wives , where Mary and Eliz- abeth were born ...
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