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...The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained ins...

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...as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. This is a modernized translation, retaining Chaucer's rhyme scheme, and close to the original, but eliminating ar...

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...volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Lines 1-18 by Geoffrey Chaucer. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 15th, 2007....

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...ld history. As you know, much has happened in the last 1000 years. Events such as: The Evolution of English linguistics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The discovery, by Europeans, of the American continents. The European Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press. Karl Benz inventing the automobile. Einstein’s theory of relativity. ...

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... history. As you know, much has happened in the last 1000 years. Events such as: The Evolution of English linguistics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The discovery, by Europeans, of the American continents. The European Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press. Karl Benz inventing the automobile. Einstein’s theory of relativity...

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...Robert Hugh Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife Mary. Benson was was a prolific and popular writer during his time, and in 1903 he became a prominent convert to the Roman Catholic Church from Anglicanism . In 1904 he was ordained a Catholic priest. ...

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... inspired more art than we can ever know, in music from Bach’s ‘Sleepers Wake’ to Purcell’s ‘My Beloved Spake’, and in literature from Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’ to Goethe’s ‘Faust’. The Song of Songs is also the favourite book of the title character in one of my favourite books, that of Nobel Laureate Sinclair Lewis – ‘Elmer Gantry’. To me the Song of Songs unit...

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...1924, Leamington 1925, Hudders eld 1926, Cheltenham 1927, Newcastle 1928, Canterbury 1929, Nottingham 1930, Birmingham 1931, Southport 1932, Oxford 1... ... Ltd.; sekr. de la britaj E kongresoj en Birmingham 1920, Leamington 1923, Canterbury 1929 kaj Birmingham 1931. den. sekr. de la 23-a UK en Oxford, 19...

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...auncelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose him king; and so was he crowned at Canterbury, and held a feast there fifteen days; and afterward he drew him unto Winchester, and there he took the Queen Guenever, and said plainly that he would wed her which was his uncle?s wife and his father?s wife....

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...ether, and there he made them to choose him king; and so was he crowned at Canterbury, and held a feast there fifteen days; and afterward he drew him ... ...oul, would never trust to come in his hands again. Then came the Bishop of Canterbury, the which was a noble clerk and an holy man, and thus he said t... ...rgulist wise that might be done. And then Sir Mordred sought the Bishop of Canterbury, for to have slain him. Then the Bishop fled, and took part of h... ...saw Sir Bedivere he knew him well, for he was but little to-fore Bishop of Canterbury, that Sir Mordred flemed. Sir, said Bedivere, what man is there ... ...ore. So there bode Sir Bedivere with the hermit that was to-fore Bishop of Canterbury, and there Sir Bedivere put upon him poor clothes, and served th... ...was buried there, that the hermit bare witness that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury, but yet the hermit knew not in certain that he was verily the b... ...HAPTER X How Sir Launcelot came to the hermitage where the Arch- bishop of Canterbury was, and how he took the habit on him B ut sithen I find you thu... ...ith great devotion. And on the morn the hermit that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury sang the mass of Requiem with great devotion. And Sir Launcelot ... ... with great devotion. And then at leisure they went all with the Bishop of Canterbury to his hermitage, and there they were together more than a month...

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...o look for land 252. “Woodstock family” discusses issues that might arise in living together 253. “Woodstock family” visits a historic commune, the Canterbury Shaker Farm 254. Steward’s host Sandy Andrews for her “open school” Indians project 255. Steward implores Kris not to invite the band to Winslow 256. As Morris is moved around, he hears tidbits of news 257. Mor...

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...Contents of The Snow Image & Other Stories 4 THE SNOW-IMAGE: A Childish Miracle 19 THE GREAT STONE FACE 37 ETHAN BRAND 53 THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS 62 THE DEVIL IN MANUSCRIPT 69 MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUX...

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... THE GREAT STONE FACE 37 ETHAN BRAND 53 THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS 62 THE DEVIL IN MANUSCRIPT 69 M... ...on the skeleton, the relics of Ethan Brand were crumbled into fragments. THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS THE SUMMER MOON, which shines in so many a tale, was ... ...aded half a cen tury before. But that there was something too warm and “The Canterbury Pilgrims” Nathaniel Hawthorne 53 life like in them, I would... ...esitation. The travellers, who, from the first, had looked suspiciously “The Canterbury Pilgrims” Nathaniel Hawthorne 54 at the garb of these young... ...rthy of a mature man, particularly in the arrangement of his hair which “The Canterbury Pilgrims” Nathaniel Hawthorne 55 was so disposed as to give... ...exity, “thee seemest to have met with great troubles; and, doubtless, I “The Canterbury Pilgrims” Nathaniel Hawthorne 56 should pity them, if—if I ... ...eces, subse quently written, he took the first opportunity to send, by “The Canterbury Pilgrims” Nathaniel Hawthorne 57 one of the Shaker brethren... ...e they were published in the New Hampshire Patriot. Meantime, another of the Canterbury pilgrims, one so different from the poet that the delicate fan... ... man,” said he, abruptly, “what quantity of land do the Shakers own here, in Canterbury?” “That is more than I can tell thee, friend,” answered Josiah...

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...E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all. Queen Lucia (first published in 1920) was the first of Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels of which there were six. This first book is a comedy of manners based in...

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...l 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treati...

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...eticulously edited books came off Caxton‘s press. They included Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales and Sir Thomas Mallory‘s Morte de Arthur. The first ―...

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...eticulously edited books came off Caxton‘s press. They included Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales and Sir Thomas Mallory‘s Morte de Arthur. The first ―cr...

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...ice-president, the secretary of the interior, the senator, the archbihop of Canterbury, the mayor of Chicago; the archduke Francis Ferdinand, the ap...

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... to be ruled by Shania law rather than British law. And the Archbishop of Canterbury seemed to give some credence to their request. It is certainly ...

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...ars regard it as the poet's finest work. As a finished long poem it is certainly more self-contained than the better known but ultimately uncompleted Canterbury Tales. Criseyde, the daughter of the seer Calchas, lives alone in Troy after her father abandons the Trojans to help the Greeks. Eventually she catches the eye of Troilus, a man who had previously scoffed at love, ...

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...ugh Benson, who was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was ordained an Anglican priest in 1895 by his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Eight years later, after weighty consideration, Robert Benson converted to Roman Catholicism. In 1904 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest and took up residence in Cambridge, where he ministered to Roman Cathol...

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...umber of financial scandals in the Church of England including those of Rochester, where the endowments which should have supported the King’s School Canterbury had been diverted to the Dean and Chapter; and of the hospital of St Cross at Winchester where the Rev. Francis North, later the Earl of Guildford, had been appointed to the mastership of the hospital by his father...