Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . no ?V out days of mag- sed in a robe splendor of ...irch was con- ?re he was thrice he laurel .tiLna his work ; irch to their !i in turn. ife»v is darling oliject, *. -, ^... ,, a emperor Charles lid of a man > a king among the ]n^s of many friends. MonDivA TA nu)i:>i4Mri iuiT OT aaouaoflTHi AfltjAa rtiiA uoa^Ato-J^^^ Iher. aisoaa VAjaoA7 .^ .^ ,-• -- .other Irom the earth. The hearthe sought comfort in workof his country, 1. He had done hi
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . no ?V out days of mag- sed in a robe splendor of ...irch was con- ?re he was thrice he laurel .tiLna his work ; irch to their !i in turn. ife»v is darling oliject, *. -, ^... ,, a emperor Charles lid of a man > a king among the ]n^s of many friends. MonDivA TA nu)i:>i4Mri iuiT OT aaouaoflTHi AfltjAa rtiiA uoa^Ato-J^^^ Iher. aisoaa VAjaoA7 .^ .^ ,-• -- .other Irom the earth. The hearthe sought comfort in workof his country, 1. He had done his n nothing. The rest of ? frequenting • hills. .,, with .i knick-knacks as the fourteenthfound his table very splendidlyuired at Ancisa at her side, and •^ solitude ; Caixara, the Princects friend and patron, had got. GEOFFREY CHAUCER 29 into a mess with tlie Venetian Republic, and sent for Petrarch to get him out of the poets skill and eloquence very soon did, and then he went back to the Fair had a peculiar way of her own of doing tardy justice to herchildren.^ She wept over Dantes grave, and after many years she begged Pe-trarch to come and live in the home of his fathers, within her walls. But thepoet did not go. He had grown to think all Italy his country, rather than onecity. Besides, a brighter home was beginning to open on the old mans and Laura and many other dear ones waited for him there, and when hehad been seventy years upon earth God called him to join them. GEOFFREY CHAUCER By Alice King
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