Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

“Our sons their fathers’ failing language see,
And such as Chaucer is shall Dryden be.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“Now welcom, somer, with thy sonne softe,
That hast this wintres wedres overshake,
And driven away the longe nyghtes blake.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)