 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 páginas
...Bath's Tale," "The Cock and the Fox,"* which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; since I can...as if some ancient painter had drawn them ; and all his> pillaging Boccacio, when we consider the probability of the work, which serveil as their common... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 páginas
...Bath's Tale," " The Cock and the Fox,''* which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; since I can...as if some ancient painter had drawn them ; and all his pillaging Boccacio, when we consider the probability of the work, which served as their common... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 páginas
...Bath's Tale, the Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part; since I can...under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a large sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits : for an example, I see Baucis and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 páginas
...Bath's Tale, the Cock and the Fox, which 1 have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part; since I can...under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a large sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits : for an example, I see Baucis and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 páginas
...his. Both of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a large sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very...as if some ancient painter had drawn them ; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, \ their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 páginas
...translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part; since 1 can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his....under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a large sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits : for an example, I see Baucis and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 564 páginas
...have tranflated, and fome others, I may juftly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; fince I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both . of them underftood the manners, under which name I comprehend the paffions, and, in a larger fenfe, the defcriptions... | |
 | 1845 - 816 páginas
...and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; since I can remembir nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the mauners ; under which name I comprehend the passions, and in a larger sense the descriptions of persons,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...lath's Tale," " The Cock and the Fox,"* which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; since I can...as if some ancient painter had drawn them ; and all his pillaging Boccacio, when we consider the probability of the work, which served as their common... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 páginas
...Bath's Tale, the Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; since I can...of persons, and their very habits ; for an example, 1 see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn them ; and all... | |
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Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners; under which name I comprehend... 
