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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
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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.
Archive 2006-07-01 Miglior acque 2006
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In his description of a Dominican convent -- printed in full in Prof. Skeat's
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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
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"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
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Wilson's _Chatterton: a Biographical Study_ is as final in its own way as Professor Skeat's two volumes.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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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
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[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
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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
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(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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