... variously dated but at any period of his manhood he might have said, as he says there, that he was too old to learn astronomy, and preferred to ...
... was more especially connected. But the multitude, whose turn in truth comes but rarely in the history of a nation, must every now and then make ...
... genuine works. The poem of the Court of Love, which was likewise long erroneously attributed to him, may be the original work of an English author ...
... from its organism and brought about their suppression. The question as to Chaucer's own attitude towards the Wycliffite movement will be more conveniently ...
... taken notice of by king and queen, if he was not born till two or more years afterwards. If, on the other hand, he was born in 1328, both events MAY ...
... so naturally turned as to French poetry, and in its domain whither so eagerly as to its universally acknowledged master-piece. French verse was the ...
... of love is treated in endless variations. In short, Chaucer executed his task with facility, and frequently with grace, though for ...
... mentioned, for services rendered by him and his wife to the Duke and Duchess of Lancaster and to the Queen by two successive grants of the year 1375 ...
... enters a garden containing in it the temple of the god of Love, and filled with inhabitants mythological and allegorical. Here he sees the noble ...
... the production of a man of wonderful reading, and shows that Chaucer's was a mind interested in the widest variety of subjects, which drew no invidious ...
... of astronomical study (as to his capacity for which he clearly does injustice to himself in the House of Fame), his good sense and his piety alike ...
... London to Canterbury (which is by no means impossible), or two days (which seems more likely), or four. The route of the pilgrimage must have been ...
... thought. Then they no longer sought after Death, but sat down all three by the shining gold. And the youngest of them spoke first, and declared that ...
... from this very picture, and from the well known one of Chaucer's last patron, King Henry IV. His attitude in this likeness is that of a quiet talker, ...
... as a translator in matching his rhymes to his French original. He acknowledges as incontestable the superiority of the poets of classical antiquity:-. -Little ...
... of England is a mightier man than was his father Henry III. Chaucer has ingeniously, though not altogether legitimately, pressed the passage into his ...
... by no means that which most deeply impresses itself upon the observation of any one able to compare Chaucer's writings with those of his more immediate ...
... the vivacity of his manner of thought and writing, could place him in so close a personal relation towards the personages and the incidents of his poems. ...
... founded on Troilus and Cressid, though it is derived from the sources which had fed the original of Chaucer's poem but the Temple of Glass seems ...
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