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  • The shopping was good: I picked up Skeat's own copy of Furnivall's edition of Harl. 7334 published for the Chaucer Society in 1885.

    Simone dei Crocefissi, National Gallery London Miglior acque 2006

  • The shopping was good: I picked up Skeat's own copy of Furnivall's edition of Harl. 7334 published for the Chaucer Society in 1885.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Miglior acque 2006

  • In his description of a Dominican convent -- printed in full in Prof. Skeat's

    The Customs of Old England

  • He told her also that he had himself written one of the two poems _Onn oure Ladies Chyrche_ -- which one, Mrs. Chatterton could not remember [4], but if it was the first of the two printed in this edition (p. 275) it was a strange coincidence indeed that led him to repudiate the antiquity of the only two Rowley poems which are really at all like 'antiques' -- Professor Skeat's convenient expression.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • "Towneley Mysteries" (a collection of plays performed at Woodkirk, formerly Widkirk, near Wakefield; see Skeat's note in _Athenæum_, Dec. 3; 1893) ed. Raine, Surtees Society, Newcastle, 1836, 8vo.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Wilson's _Chatterton: a Biographical Study_ is as final in its own way as Professor Skeat's two volumes.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • At the end of Skeat's "Etymological Dictionary," [401] there is a table of the words of the language classified according to their derivation; the words borrowed from Germanic or Scandinavian idioms fill seven columns and a half; those taken from the French, and the Romance or classic tongues, sixteen columns.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • [1] For _The Knightes Tale_, see Prof. Skeat's edition (modern spelling) in the "King's Classics," and his excellent introduction.

    The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

  • The "Romaunt" is to be found in Skeat's edition of the "Complete Works" of Chaucer,

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • (Skeat's ed., lines 4424-40) raises the question of predestination, only to drop it.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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