How To Use Canterbury tales In A Sentence
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Mr. Dean, who as a young father regaled his daughters with passages from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in Middle English and fed the girls plump blueberries from the back yard, died of a brain aneurysm Dec. 2 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County.
A Local Life: Alan L. Dean, 92, the 'Ideal Father'
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[11.65] "Quendam libru 'meu' de Canterbury Tales.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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Our countryman, in the end of his characters, before the Canterbury tales, thus excuses the ribaldry, which is very gross in many of his novels.
English literary criticism
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Dryden, in his fine rifacimento of one of the finest passages in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, represents the Good Parson as choosing to resign his benefice rather than acknowledge the Duke of Lancaster to be King of England.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
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According to World Wide Words from whence I got this word, Chaucer uses it in Canterbury Tales: “In woman vinolent is no defence, This knowen lecchours by experience.”
September « 2005 « So Many Books
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But even the most cursory of glances at The Canterbury Tales will convince you that this is hardly new.
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Our countryman, in the end of his characters, before the _Canterbury Tales_, thus excuses the ribaldry, which is very gross in many of his novels:
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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The Canterbury Tales I've written so far which chronicle the pilgrims' homeward journey are all in different genres, varying from fables to fabliau, and from crime fiction to chick lit; and since Coscom Entertainment offered me a chance at publication with 'The Monk's Second Tale', this became the horror Canterbury Tale'.
Literary Mash-Ups: What do You Think?
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There are loads of tour packages -- Emagine (santa tours. co.uk) and Canterbury Tales (canterbury-tales. com) are two of the most established operators.
Tip Sheet
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But even the most cursory of glances at The Canterbury Tales will convince you that this is hardly new.
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Chaucer was a great English poet, The Canterbury Tales was his most popular work for their power of observation, piercing irony, sense of humour and warm humanity.
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Buskins are presumed by Strutt to have resembled "the shoes of the carpenter's wife in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," which the poet says 'were laced high upon her legs'.
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This essay is an analysis on the absence of female consciousness of "The Merchant's Tale" in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by using one of Irigaray's feminist arguments.
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In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses the Wheel of Fortune to describe the tragic fall of several historical figures in his Monk’s Tale.
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25D: Burrow: rabbit:: holt: _____ (otter) - I know "holt" only from the opening of "Canterbury Tales," but I don't remember OTTERs being involved.
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
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He tracks down and exposes wonder-working nuns and other charlatans, leftovers from The Canterbury Tales, and instead of hanging or flogging them compels them to confess their fraudulence in public.
The Men Who Made England
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Incidentally, the OED has the entry form galingale used by Chaucer in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: "A Cook they hadde with hem for the nones/ To boille the chiknes with the Marybones/ And poudre Marchant tart and galyngale" and gives the following impressive variety of forms:
Languagehat.com: LENGKUA/GALANGAL.
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Death of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, which establishes English as a literary language and paves the way for Shakespeare.
The English Is Coming!
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The Canterbury Tales bear eloquent witness to the fact that for centuries Becket's tomb in the cathedral was the greatest pilgrimage shrine in England.
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Seven hundred years later ' The Canterbury Tales' is still considered one of the greatest English literary masterpieces.
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Dryden; but the fact is, _I did not know that Dryden's version existed_; for having undertaken to complete those of the Canterbury Tales which were wanting in Ogle's collection, and the tale in question _not being in that collection_, I proceeded to supply it, having never till very lately, strange as it may seem, _seen the volume of Dryden's Fables in which it may be found_!!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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Close by was St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery founded in the time of William the Conqueror, and mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the prologue to his Canterbury Tales.
