Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

    On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would have held up his head in their company.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Whoso will seeken acts of sundry realms
    May read of dreames many a wonder thing.
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne,
    Entuned in hir nose ful semely,
    And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
    After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe,
    For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)