 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his CANTERBURY TALES the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier and Luke Milbourne, each of whom had recently... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 páginas
...mud have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferveit o~f him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury tales the various rrunners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifh nation^ in his age. Not a fmgle character... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 páginas
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury tales, the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims ase severally... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 páginas
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 páginas
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 páginas
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are seterally... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 páginas
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of bis Canterbury) Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 564 páginas
...Chaucer where I left him. He muft have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehen(ive nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken...them) of the whole Englifli nation, in his age. Not a Jingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally diftinguiflied from each other ; and... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 páginas
...observed of him," says Dryden, (in the preface to his Fables,) that " he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales, the various manners and humours, as we now call them, of the whole English nation in his age ; not a single character has escapedhim. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
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He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation,... 
