How To Use Chaucer In A Sentence
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise.
Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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When I read the word "dight," my mind went immediately back to Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, l. 146, "in Omer, or in Dares, or in Dyte.
Languagehat.com: DIGHT.
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Of his style and manner, if we think first of the romance-poetry and then of Chaucers divine liquidness of diction, his divine fluidity of movement, it is difficult to speak temperately.
The Study of Poetry
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If Chaucer's death went unmarked in the public world, his loss was deeply felt by the poets who followed after him.
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Along the way Gray offers idiosyncratic commentaries on Chaucer, Pepys, Gibbon, Milton and Burns.
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The faerie folk are mentioned in the medieval chronicles and go back even further; Chaucer describes them as something people ‘no longer’ believe in.
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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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Using the visual, audio, kinetic and print forms, her new lingo reads like a wild blend of Chaucer, SMS-speak and Anthony Burgess's droog slang.
This week's new exhibitions
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Ballade" was also the name of a somewhat intricate French stanza form, employed by Gower and Chaucer, and recently reintroduced into English verse by Dobson, Lang, Goose, and others, along with the virelay, rondeau, triolet, etc.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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The OED cites examples from Chaucer onwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chaucer has hole, hool, and hoolich; and Wiclif, _hole_ and _hool_.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
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‘Hairen’ is in Wiclif and in Chaucer; ‘stonen’ in the former (John iii.
English Past and Present
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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.
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His historical sense is even less realistic than that of Chaucer who just a few years before had done for his own time costume romances, such as The Knight's Tale, Troilus and Cressida, etc.
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In this prologue, Chaucer introduces all of the characters who are involved in this imaginary journey and who will tell the tales.
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Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
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Chaucer lived he must have heard this very language, matter of fact, unmetaphorical, far better fitted for narrative than for analysis, capable of religious solemnity or of broad humour, but very stiff material to put on the lips of men and women accosting each other face to face.
The Common Reader
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The wimple was a covering for the neck, said to have been introduced in the reign of Edward I. See Chaucer's
Marmion
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It is Chaucer's dialect: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote.
'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation
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Although the custom has since curtailed, in Chaucer's time it was common for pardoners - dealers in pardons - to travel the countryside peddling their ‘wares’.
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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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halfe cours," in one of which the sun would be in Aries, and in the other in Taurus; and that when Chaucer says that "the yonge Sonne had in the Ram his halfe cours yronne," he meant that the _Aries half of the month of
Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Of the Middle English poets, Chaucer is the one who displays most knowledge of wine, although he tends to mention different wines only briefly.
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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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As the poetry of Chaucer corresponds, in its wealth and intimacy of decoration, to the illuminations and tapestries of the middle ages, so the epigrams given under this section constantly recall the sculptured reliefs and the engraved gems of Greek art.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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Though it is the painful season of Christ's agony and death, it belongs in Chaucer to the elemental happiness rising from the resurrecting earth.
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This change has taken place in a number of words with an originally long u (Chaucerian long close o), such as forsook, hook, book, look, rook, shook, all of which formerly had the vowel of boot.
Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law
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In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
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No record remains of the education that gave Chaucer lifelong familiarity with Latin and several vernacular languages and literatures.
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How can a devotee of Chaucer feel otherwise when the liturgy recalls what the church historically is-a parade of human beings fallible and peccable?
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Emerson was very fond of the passage on "gentilesse" in Chaucer's _Wife of Bath's
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The purely modern phrase ` ` look sharp '' was supposed to have been used in the time of Chaucer, because ` ` loke schappe '' (see that you form, etc.) of the manuscript was printed ` ` loke scharpe. ''
Literary Blunders
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The OED cites examples from Chaucer onwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two qualities seem naturally to combine into that self-containedness (very different from self-contentedness) which distinguishes Chaucer, and which helps to give to his writings a manliness of tone, the direct opposite of the irretentive querulousness found in so great a number of poets in all times.
Chaucer
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Its Norman characteristic is found in the young _ecuyer_ or squire, of Chaucer, who aspires to equal his father in station and renown; while the English type of the man-at-arms (_l'homme d'armes_) is found in their attendant yeoman, the
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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She had Montaigne read aloud to her as she sat stitching at Knole; she sat absorbed in Chaucer while her husband worked.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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French words veal, beef, venison, pork, even in Chaucer's time, stood for the animals as well as the flesh.
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Does Chaucer allude to these when speaking of the ‘excesse of divers metis and drinkis, and namely of suche maner of bake metis and dische metes brennyng of wilde fuyr, and _peynted and castelid with papire_, and semblable wast, so that is abusion for to thinke.’
Early English Meals and Manners
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Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue stars a woman who takes five husbands for their sex and wealth, and seeks to gain "sovereignty" over them sexually.
INTERVIEW: Andy Remic
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If Chaucer were alive today, and armed with a shotgun, there wouldn't be a jury in the land who'd convict.
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Because of her obnoxious attitude Chaucer makes her toothless, fat and large.
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Chaucer was great, the villain was definitely evil, and the jousting/action scenes were very well done.
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The fourth is in seven verses, & is the chiefe of our ancient proportions vsed by any rimer writing any thing of historical or graue poeme, as ye may see in _Chaucer_ and
The Arte of English Poesie
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Chaucer was fairly heavily influenced by Boccaccio 'Decamerom and the English Literature you eulogise (quite correctly) appears to stop with the Elizabethans and before the novel - some mistake surely.
Phillip Shipley MP Wants Union Jack on Mosques
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Chaucer's manner is not the _Shepheardes Calendar_, but his _Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale_, which he says, writing in a later year, he had 'long sithens composed in the raw conceipt of my youth. '
A Biography of Edmund Spenser
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In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
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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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It was Chaucer who really turned English into a literary language.
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Nam quando mulieres cognoscunt maritum hoc advertere, licentius peccant, [6048] as Nevisanus holds, when a woman thinks her husband watcheth her, she will sooner offend; [6049] Liberius peccant, et pudor omnis abest, rough handling makes them worse: as the goodwife of Bath in Chaucer brags,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Chaucer, upon which this kind of rejuvenescence has been bestowed by
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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Chaucer, who came of London merchant stock, grew up in aristocratic and royal circles, and he was one of the most lionized and richly rewarded poets of any age.
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While failing often to catch the gusto of ancient poetry -- witness his translations from Chaucer -- Wordsworth was full of the spirit -- witness his rifacimento of The Owl and the Nightingale --and, best of all, handed it on to Coleridge.
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
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Every allegedly great age is an age of translations, beginning with Geoffrey Chaucer, paraphraser of Virgil and Ovid, condenser of old stories he had found in Latin, French, and Italian.
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Another possible approach might examine Chaucerian criticism as a marketplace of ideas: how market-like is the ‘Chaucer industry’?
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‘Chaucer would have thoroughly absorbed the language of the streets, that rich polyglot mixture of Latin patois, Anglo-Norman phraseology and English demotic,’ he writes.
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Chaucer has an example: 'And saw a nothere ladye'.
On a nother matter
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It is said that Chaucer borrowed the form of his famous tales from a book called The Decameron, written by an Italian poet named Boccaccio.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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Chaucer wrote of his Franklin: “It snowed in his house of mete and drynke.”
Convention on Modern Liberty
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Of his style and manner, if we think first of the romance-poetry and then of Chaucer's divine liquidness of diction, his divine fluidity of movement, it is difficult to speak temperately.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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This poetic output, at a time when post-Chaucerian England was fallow, was a combination of classic grace, religious fervour, eroticism, and bawdry which was almost hypnotic.
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Navarre on the other is not likely, however, to appeal to that part of the English and American reading public that expurgates its Chaucer, and blushes at the mention of Fielding and Smollett.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
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Under the circumstances, if Chaucer ever was a “vallettus camerae Regis,” we should expect him to have been so called more than once.
Chaucer's Official Life
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The overall tone is considerably lighter than in Chaucer's poem, the play being diversified with songs and lyrical passages.
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Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
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Chaucer's exact source is not known, but it is clear that the friar tells it to enrage the summoner on the pilgrimage, who interrupts the narrative and rejoins with a scurrilous and discreditable story about a friar.
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In English literature, satire may be held to have begun with Chaucer, who was followed by many 15th-cent. writers, including Dunbar.
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The figure of exclamation, I call him [_the outcrie_] because it vtters our minde by all such words as do shew any extreme passion, whether it be by way of exclamation or crying out, admiration or wondering, imprecation or cursing, obtestation or taking God and the world to witnes, or any such like as declare an impotent affection, as _Chaucer_ of the _Lady
The Arte of English Poesie
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The doggerel verses parodied Chaucer and the quotation `Radix malorum... "wasn't that from one of Chaucer's tales?
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Chaucer wrote in the late mediaeval period.
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Chaucer -- for he knew that "smalè foulès" shelter in the "hethe" as well as in the "holt" -- among broom and bracken, and heath and rushes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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'uprest' is simply an overlooked misprint for 'uprist' -- not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regular formation, familiar to many from its employment by Chaucer.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete
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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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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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a ‘donnat’, or ‘donet’ (Chaucer), from Donatus, a famous grammarian.
English Past and Present
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Chaucer wrote in the late mediaeval period.
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Chaucer worked in the first Customs House, and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall.
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise.
Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Parliament of which Chaucer was a member was the assembly which boldly confronted the autocratical tendencies of Richard II, and after overthrowing the Chancellor, Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, forced upon the king a Council controlling the administration of affairs.
Chaucer
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She brings up many a valid point throughout the prologue but Chaucer voids her opinion because of her social class and looks when in truth she is actually wise.
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The mock-heroic story is full of rhetoric and exempla, and it is one of the most admired of the Tales, regarded as the most typically ‘Chaucerian’ in tone and content.
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Elizabeth David, in a fine account of the history of yeast in English baking, remarks that: In Chaucer's England one of the names for yeast or barm was goddisgoode.
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Chaucer flourished at the end of the 14 th century.
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But for a poet concerned with scansion, as Chaucer was, that weak ending the final e offered was a blessing.
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Gossip has quite degenerated from its old meaning, and even "sib," though good English in Chaucer's time, is now only to be found in provincial dialects; but in German "sipp" still means "kin.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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But when Chaucer met her the house was ruling itself somewhere at the 'shire's ende'.
Medieval People
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The purely modern phrase "look sharp" was supposed to have been used in the time of Chaucer, because "loke schappe" (see that you form, etc.) of the manuscript was printed "loke scharpe.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
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[6268] Salisburiensis adviseth, ne si alteram aspexeris, mox eam sordere putes, as the Knight in Chaucer, that was married to an old woman,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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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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A pandar was a procurer of sexual services, after the character in Chaucer.
Defence of Poesie
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Chaucer,” by H.J. Todd, F.S.A., 1810, shows the anelace hanging from a button on the breast of his surcoat.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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Cally, 196: Thank you, but I don't want the etext--I just really love the idea of proofing the same edition of Chaucer my grandfather taught from.
Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan
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Chaucer was buried in the Abbey only because the year before he had gone to live in a tenement in the Abbey's precincts, perhaps as a reward for loyal service as a courtier and civil servant.
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It is often said that the power of liquidness and fluidity in Chaucers verse was dependent upon a free, a licentious dealing with language, such as is now impossible; upon a liberty, such as Burns too enjoyed, of making words like neck, bird, into a disyllable by adding to them, and words like cause, rhyme, into a disyllable by sounding the e mute.
The Study of Poetry
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Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
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If Chaucer were alive today, and armed with a shotgun, there wouldn't be a jury in the land who'd convict.
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The wealthy Morris fed Burne-Jones's appetite for aestheticism: They shared an interest in Romanticism, illuminated manuscripts, medieval church interiors and Chaucer.
A Penchant for Dreaming
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Chaucer sympathizes with her because he himself was considered low-class.
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Sacrista curet quod _Libri bene ligentur et haspentur_," &c. In Chaucer's time, one would think that the fashionable binding for the books of young scholars was
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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In these more sensuous moods he is so filled with the simple Chaucerian gladsomeness of spring that he can sing, or make one of his characters sing -- for after all, his characters are but so many sides of himself --
Platform Monologues
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The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe; and in the hands of the skilled bricklayer,
The Wrong Box
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Widely considered the father of English literature, Chaucer was born around 1343 to a wealthy wine merchant.
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It is often said that the power of liquidness and fluidity in Chaucer's verse was dependent upon a free, a licentious dealing with language, such as is now impossible; upon a liberty, such as Burns too enjoyed, of making words like _neck, bird_, into a dissyllable by adding to them, and words like _cause, rhyme_, into a dissyllable by sounding the _e_ mute.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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It seems scarcely justifiable to assign to any particular point of time the "Ballade sent to King Richard" by Chaucer; but its manifest intention was to apprise the king of the poet's sympathy with his struggle against the opponents of the royal policy, which was a thoroughly autocratical one.
Chaucer
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We know that his wife was called Philippa, that one Philippa Chaucer belonged to the queen's household in 1366, and that the Philippa Chaucer, wife of the poet, was at a later date in the service of the Duchess of
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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He had known Bolingbroke's dear mother, by corpus bones, and he hoped a little verse from Galfridus Chaucer armiger dilectus might actually be read by the King himself.
A Complaint to His Purse
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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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The two were used interchangeably as early as the 1920s, although some whiskered English traditionalists will still insist on "fount" in an elitist way, in the hope that it will stretch their authenticity all the way back to Caxton, the great British printer of Chaucer.
The Guardian World News
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‘You should always read Chaucer aloud,’ said a young woman with long frizzy hair, little piggy eyes behind little pink piggy spectacles and an overbearingly loud voice.
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Although the name "Chaucer" is (according to Thynne), to be found on the lists of Battle Abbey, this no more proves that the poet himself came of "high parage," than the reverse is to be concluded from the nature of his coat-of-arms, which Speght thought must have been taken out of the 27th and 28th
Chaucer
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Nam quando mulieres cognoscunt maritum hoc advertere, licentius peccant, [6048] as Nevisanus holds, when a woman thinks her husband watcheth her, she will sooner offend; [6049] Liberius peccant, et pudor omnis abest, rough handling makes them worse: as the goodwife of Bath in Chaucer brags,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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By Chaucer's time, probably the best known of these spicy wines were hippocras and clary.
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It was Chaucer who really turned English into a literary language.
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It was Chaucer who really turned English into a literary language.
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With a delicate irony in Chaucer's picture, is combined somewhat of a liking for this "worthy limitour." [
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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Under the circumstances, if Chaucer ever was a "vallettus camerae
Chaucer's Official Life
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Eventually this diphthong appears as yu, with change of stressdew (from Anglo-Saxon deaw) like due (Chaucerian dü).
Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other
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But Chaucer is very equal, very even-paced, very unmetaphorical.
The Common Reader
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It is attested by documentary evidence, that in the year 1374, Chaucer had a wife by name Philippa, who had been in the service of John of
Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340 - 1400 ) is the founder of English poetry.
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I will, however,just comment that a sort of "clericalist" mindset, which is always a danger within the Church and about which Chaucer, for example, is scathing, and also Thomas More some centuries later was particularly strong in the first half of the 20th century for various reasons.
The word "Westminster"...
