Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin's Tale, l. 767-770
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Geoffrey Chaucer bol anglický básnik, ktorého diela, najmä Canterburské poviedky sa považujú za prelom v anglickej literatúre. Chaucer pôsobil aj ako diplomat a filozof.Canterburské poviedky, cyklus 24 príbehov, ktoré si rozprávajú pútnici na ceste z Londýna, začal písať v roku 1387. Wikipedia

Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin's Tale, l. 767-770
The Canterbury Tales
“Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.”
The Court of Love, line 178
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 72
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“That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6752
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Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 525-529
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Geoffrey Chaucer kniha Parlement of Foules
Parlement of Foules, l. 22-25
“Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha Troilus and Criseyde
One ear heard it, at the other out it went
Book 4, line 434
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6695
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“Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha Parlement of Foules
Parlement of Foules, l. 379
“A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 287
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“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin's Tale, l. 11789
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“Men sholde wedden after hir estat,
For youthe and elde is often at debat.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Miller's Tale, l. 121-122
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“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
Zdroj: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales, L. 1201
“O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?”
The Flower and the Leaf, line 59
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, l. 2275
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Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 122-126
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“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Reeve's Tale, l. 4051
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Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 1-12
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Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 41
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 565; referencing the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb".
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Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Parson's Tale, sect. 77
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“Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
About the Sergeant of Law
General Prologue, l. 323-324
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The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse, l. 19–21
Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, l. 1141
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Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 733
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“This flour of wifly patience.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Clerk's Tale, part v., l. 8797
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“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
Persones Tale
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
“His studie was but litel on the Bible.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 440
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“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Reeve's Tale, l. 4153
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