 The Monk and the Miller's Wife ' would of itself be his passport to immortality as a comic poet. In this capacity, he might enter the lists with Chaucer, and Boccacio, with no great risk of discomfiture.  The Poems of Allan Ramsay - Página cviipor Allan Ramsay - 1800Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 páginas
...happy effort in this department f. This tale, says Lord Woodhouselee, " would of itself be his passport to immortality, as a comic poet. In this capacity he might enter the lists with Chaucer and • Boccacio, with no great risk of discomfiture. Though far their inferior... | |
 | William Dunbar - 1834 - 412 páginas
...Writings of ALLAN RAMSAY, says, that " The Monk and the Miller's Wife would, of itself, be his passport to immortality, as a comic poet. In this capacity, he might enter the lists with Chaucer, and Boccaccio, with no great risk of discomfiture. Though far their inferior in... | |
 | William Dunbar - 1834 - 422 páginas
...Writings of ALLAN RAMSAY, says, that " The Monk and the Miller's Wife would, of itself, be his passport to immortality, as a comic poet. In this capacity, he might enter the lists with Chaucer, and Boccaccio, with no great risk of discomfiture. Though far their inferior in... | |
 | William Dunbar - 1834 - 446 páginas
...Writings of ALLAN RAMSAY, says, that " The Monk and the Miller's Wife would, of itself, be his passport to immortality, as a comic poet. In this capacity, he might enter the lists with Chaucer, and Boccaccio, with no great risk of discomfiture. Though far their inferior in... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1851 - 192 páginas
...regretted that he has left so few. ' The Monk and the Miller's Wife ' would of itself be his passport to immortality as a comic poet. In this capacity, he might enter the lists with Chaucer, and Boccacio, with no great risk of discomfiture. Though far their inferior in... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 páginas
...pp. 12, 62. FABLES AND TALES 1722 "The Monk and the Miller's Wife" would of itself be his passport to immortality as a comic poet. In this capacity he might enter the lists with Chaucer and Boccacio with no great risk of discomfiture. Though far their inferior in acquired... | |
 | Maggs Bros - 1928 - 1028 páginas
...172-2. ^16 i6s " 'The Monk and the Miller's Wife,' " says Eraser, "would of itself be his passport to immortality as a comic poet. In this capacity he might enter the list' with Ghnucer and Boccacio with no great risk of discomfiture." 1923 THE FAIR ASSEMBLY. A Poem.... | |
 | 1801 - 522 páginas
...Cats and the Cheefe. Thefe, with the utmoft propriety of character, have all the naivfts of Phredrus and la Fontaine, with the wit and eafe of Gay. The...a comic poet. In this capacity, he might enter the liils •with Chaucer, and Boccacio, with no great rifle of difcomfiture. Though far their inferior... | |
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