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Geoffrey Chaucer est un écrivain et poète anglais né à Londres dans les années 1340 et mort en 1400 dans cette même ville. Son œuvre la plus célèbre est Les Contes de Canterbury. Il est l'un des principaux auteurs de langue anglaise du XIVe siècle avec John Gower, William Langland et le Pearl Poet, et il est largement considéré comme l'un des pères de la littérature anglaise. Wikipedia  

✵ 1343 – 25. octobre 1400   •   Autres noms Джеффри Чосер
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Citations en anglais

“I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,
That hath but on hole for to sterten to.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6154
The Canterbury Tales

“Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be,
That may bothe werke wel and hastily.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Merchant's Tale, l. 1832-1833
The Canterbury Tales

“Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily. 4
This wol be done at leisure parfitly.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Merchant's Tale, l. 585
The Canterbury Tales

“This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, —
That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 498
The Canterbury Tales

“For May wol have no slogardie a-night.
The seson priketh every gentil herte,
And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 1044
The Canterbury Tales

“And of his port as meke as is a mayde.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 69
The Canterbury Tales

“For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer

The Ten Commandments of Love
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book 3, line 1625-1628
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,
He taught; but first he folwed it himselve.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 529
The Canterbury Tales

“For him was lever han at his beddes hed
A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red,
Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
But all be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 295-300
The Canterbury Tales

“Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Reeve's Tale, l. 388
The Canterbury Tales

“Mordre wol out, that se we day by day.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 232
The Canterbury Tales

“For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 445
The Canterbury Tales

“They demen gladly to the badder end.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Squire's Tale, l. 10538
The Canterbury Tales

“To maken vertue of necessite.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale, l. 3044
The Canterbury Tales

“And for ther is so gret diversite
In Englissh and in writyng of oure tonge,
So prey I God that non myswrite the,
Ne the mysmetre for defaute of tonge;
And red wherso thow be, or elles songe,
That thow be understonde, God I biseche!”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book 5, line 1793-1798
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde,
Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Clerk's Tale, l. 62-63
The Canterbury Tales

“But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Chanones Yemannes Tale, l. 16430
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales

“Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale, l. 2408
The Canterbury Tales

“And brought of mighty ale a large quart.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Miller's Tale, l. 3497
The Canterbury Tales

“Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book 5, line 1798
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“For which he wex a litel red for shame,
Whan he the peple upon him herde cryen,
That to beholde it was a noble game,
How sobreliche he caste doun his yen.
Criseyda gan al his chere aspyen,
And let so softe it in her herte sinke
That to herself she seyde, “Who yaf me drinke?””

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book 2, line 645-651
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“Harde is his herte that loveth nought
In Mey, …”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Romaunt of the Rose

The Romaunt of the Rose, Lines 85-86 http://books.google.com/books?id=bGhZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22harde+is+his+herte+that%22+%22nought+in+mey%22&pg=PA215#v=onepage

“That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale, l. 1524
The Canterbury Tales

“Or as an ook comth of a litel spir,
So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente,
Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book 2, line 1335-37
The earliest known near-usage in English of the proverb "Great oaks from little acorns grow."
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“I am right sorry for your heavinesse.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book 5, line 146
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 493
The Canterbury Tales

“Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book ii, line 470
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book 4, line 1283
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer livre Troilus and Criseyde

Book 3, line 764
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

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