A Study of Poetic Justice in the Tales of ChaucerUniversity of California. May, 1915 - 268 Seiten |
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Seite 85
... original presents the clerks in the beginning under the urgent necessity of getting food . Their decision to borrow it from a friend is different than Chaucer's clerks who already have the corn and who go directly to the mill to grind ...
... original presents the clerks in the beginning under the urgent necessity of getting food . Their decision to borrow it from a friend is different than Chaucer's clerks who already have the corn and who go directly to the mill to grind ...
Seite 86
... original the contest is not so soon the mainspring of the story . The clerks ' cleverness does not assert itself until the next moment of the plot . The miller almost leads them to another useless search except that they are stopped by ...
... original the contest is not so soon the mainspring of the story . The clerks ' cleverness does not assert itself until the next moment of the plot . The miller almost leads them to another useless search except that they are stopped by ...
Seite 88
... original would not have fitted in the Reves Tale ? Chaucer has elaborated so greatly upon the question of the family honor that it would be heresy if at the end he split the loyalty by making the wife an agent , any other than by chance ...
... original would not have fitted in the Reves Tale ? Chaucer has elaborated so greatly upon the question of the family honor that it would be heresy if at the end he split the loyalty by making the wife an agent , any other than by chance ...
Seite 90
... original in Aesop's collection has never been found " so early as King Alfred's time , England can , at present , show the best prima facie title to the authorship of the fable . " - Note by F.J.Furnival Originals and Analogues , Vol.1 ...
... original in Aesop's collection has never been found " so early as King Alfred's time , England can , at present , show the best prima facie title to the authorship of the fable . " - Note by F.J.Furnival Originals and Analogues , Vol.1 ...
Seite 92
... writer probably toucht up his original , which was no doubt Marie de France's Fable , translated from the Eng- lish of King Alfred " -Orig . and Anal . page 112 . is already provided . But none of the dream literature -92-
... writer probably toucht up his original , which was no doubt Marie de France's Fable , translated from the Eng- lish of King Alfred " -Orig . and Anal . page 112 . is already provided . But none of the dream literature -92-
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absolon Addison Alison amartia Andreas Capellanus antagonism Arcite Aristotle arouse awakened Benoit Boccaccio Calchas carpenter Cato cause character Chaucer chivalry Clerks Tale Courtly Love Crise yde Criseyde's Custance Dares death Dictys Diomede distribution of rewards Edited English Euripides evil exempla exemplum fable fabliaux falling from happiness feel Filostrato flaw Franklins Tale Greek Griseida Guido hero heroine husband Ibid Joseph Addison Knights Tale lady Laws Tale lover Marie de France marriage mediaeval Millers Tale misfortune narrative natural machinery nemesis Nicholas Orig Palomon Pandarus pity and fear plot poem poet poetic justice Poetry of Chaucer principles of poetic Prioresses Tale Prof questionable ruse retribution revenge Reves Tale Roman de Troie Roman du Renart romance says Shakespeare shal sholde Story of Troilus suffering sympathy tavern thou tragedy translated Troilus and Criseyde Trojan un-to Venus virtue Walter weakness wife woman
Beliebte Passagen
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.