A Study of Poetic Justice in the Tales of Chaucer

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University of California. May, 1915 - 268 Seiten

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Seite 97 - And is this song maked in reverence Of Cristes moder?' seyde this innocent; 'Now certes, I wol do my diligence To conne it al, er Cristemasse is went; Though that I for my prymer shal be shent, And shal be beten thrye's in an houre, I wol it conne, our lady for to honoure.
Seite 27 - Let not a torrent of impetuous zeal Transport thee thus beyond the bounds of reason : True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides, All else is tow'ring frenzy and distraction.
Seite 21 - ... they are dealt with in the world, by making virtue sometimes happy, and sometimes miserable, as they found it in the fable which they made choice of, or as it might affect their audience in the most agreeable manner.
Seite 46 - ... and skill he had displayed in the perils of the bridge and the wild beasts, offered him his assistance and informed him that the queen was safe in his castle, but could only be rescued by encountering Maleagans.
Seite 23 - tis an impious greatness, And mixed with too much horror to be envied: How does the lustre of our father's actions, Through the dark cloud of ills that cover him, Break out, and burn with more triumphant brightness! His sufferings shine, and spread a glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the cause Of honour, virtue, liberty, and Rome.
Seite 56 - That al be that Criseyde was untrewe, That for that gilt she be not wrooth with me. Ye may hir gilt in othere bokes see ; And gladlier I wol wryten, if yow leste, Penelopees trouthe and good Alceste.
Seite 109 - For-dronke, as he sat on his bench upright ; Ther cam a privee theef, men clepeth Deeth, That in this contree al the peple sleeth, And with his spere he smoot his herte a-two, And wente his wey with-outen wordes mo. He hath a thousand slayn this pestilence : And, maister, er ye come in his presence, Me thinketh that it were necessarie For to be war of swich an adversarie : Beth redy for to mete him evermore. Thus taughte me my dame, I sey na-more.
Seite 14 - Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting-, That would not let me sleep...
Seite 21 - Tragedies, many of which terminate unhappily; for this, as we have shown, is right; and, as the strongest proof of it, we find that, upon the stage, and in the dramatic contests, such Tragedies, if they succeed, have always the most tragic effect : and Euripides, though in other respects faulty in the conduct of his subjects, seems clearly to be the most tragic of all poets. I place in the second rank that kind of fable to which some assign the...
Seite 5 - Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.

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