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... delight . And that , and the vivid picture of the life of the times which is thus created , is our chief delight in the Canterbury Tales . So vivid is the picture , so real are the people , that I think that we cannot do better than see ...
... delight . And that , and the vivid picture of the life of the times which is thus created , is our chief delight in the Canterbury Tales . So vivid is the picture , so real are the people , that I think that we cannot do better than see ...
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... delight- ful proportion , either accompanied with , or prepared for , the well- enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale , forsooth , he cometh unto you , with a tale which holdeth children from play , and old men from the chimney ...
... delight- ful proportion , either accompanied with , or prepared for , the well- enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale , forsooth , he cometh unto you , with a tale which holdeth children from play , and old men from the chimney ...
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... delight each May - morning : If these delights thy mind may move , Then live with me and be my Love . Elizabethan poetry is full of these idyllic pictures - many of them ( as in this little poem of Campion's ) ex- plicitly drawing the ...
... delight each May - morning : If these delights thy mind may move , Then live with me and be my Love . Elizabethan poetry is full of these idyllic pictures - many of them ( as in this little poem of Campion's ) ex- plicitly drawing the ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
ENGLISH DRAMA FROM THE MIRACLE PLAYS TO | 53 |
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