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afrz Alex alliteration Altenglischen apokope astert Bathe Bedeutung beispiele Boccaccio Boëthius brest Brink Canterbury Tales cäsur Cb Hl Chaucer Chaucer's Chryseis Clerk consonanten Cp PL Crys deth Dichter doon doun Dream Duch EH Cb elision englischen ersten falle Fame fehlt Filostrato findet folgenden folk form Foules G. W. prol Gedicht good gret hadde Handlung hath herte hist italienischen Knight love make March Mätzner Monk Morsbach never nought olde Pandarus Pard Passivi Perf Perfekt Pogatscher Praet Prol quod Reeve Reime right Rose sche Schipper seyde shal Skeat Sprache steht Stelle svâ syncope Tale ther thing thou thyn Troil Troilus Troyl tyme Tyrwhitt UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unserem verschleifung verse vokal Vulgata Werke whan wolde Worte zweisilbiger senkung þat
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Page 2 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine...
Page 9 - A KNIGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he loved chivalrye, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
Page 15 - O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and...
Page 2 - They who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of...
Page 51 - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye, Ageyn another hethen in Turkye : And evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys. And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vileinye ne sayde In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight.
Page 25 - HISTORICAL OUTLINES OF ENGLISH ACCIDENCE, comprising Chapters on the History and Development of the Language, and on Word-formation.
Page 52 - And keep it al so clenly as thou may, Although his cage of gold be never so gay, Yet hath this brid, by twenty thousand foold Levere in a forest, that is rude and coold, Goon etc wormes and swich wrecchednesse.
Page 9 - Lord, save us, we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him...
Page 24 - Trnmpington, nat fer fro Cantebrigge, Ther goth a brook and over that a brigge, Up-on the whiche brook ther stant a melle ; And this is verray soth that I yow telle.
Page 2 - ... in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.