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Page 107
... Tale , a mock - heroic com- position so full of rhetoric and so amusingly parodying the style of the Monk's Tale , which immediately preceded it , as to invite the suggestion that the ' high style ' and its parody were purposely ...
... Tale , a mock - heroic com- position so full of rhetoric and so amusingly parodying the style of the Monk's Tale , which immediately preceded it , as to invite the suggestion that the ' high style ' and its parody were purposely ...
Page 108
... tale is not particularly appropriate to the Manciple or indeed to any other of the pilgrims , and that no effort is made to adapt it to him . It consists of 258 lines , of which 41 are devoted to describing Phebus , his wife , and the ...
... tale is not particularly appropriate to the Manciple or indeed to any other of the pilgrims , and that no effort is made to adapt it to him . It consists of 258 lines , of which 41 are devoted to describing Phebus , his wife , and the ...
Page 110
... tale . There is even a differ- ence between the Doctor's Tale and that of the Man of Law in manner of handling . In the Man of Law's Tale the narrative is , for the most part , broken into comparatively brief sections and the rhetoric ...
... tale . There is even a differ- ence between the Doctor's Tale and that of the Man of Law in manner of handling . In the Man of Law's Tale the narrative is , for the most part , broken into comparatively brief sections and the rhetoric ...
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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 192526 | 3 |
ON THE COLOPHONS AND MARGINALIA OF IRISH SCRIBES BY THE | 11 |
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