...Bath's Tale," "The Cock and the Fox," which I have 25 translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part; since I can...understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the pas1 Roman poet (43 BC-AD 17). sions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their...

...and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an 1 A. 3176-3181. example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before...as if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, — their humors, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly...

...Bath's Tale, the Coch and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our 25 countryman the precedence in that part ; since I can...descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an 30 example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn...

...Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our 25 countryman the precedence hi that part ; since I can remember nothing of Ovid which...descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an 30 example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn...

...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...nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them under15 stood the manners ; under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the...

...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 the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humors, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly...

...with wonderful facility and clearness. . . . Both of them built on the inventions of other men. . . . Both of them understood the manners, under which name...sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits.'52 And although Ovid was far more sophisticated (it was not only that Chaucer affected na1vete...

...his Preface to the Fables (1700): comparing Chaucer to Ovid he declares, "1 see Baucis and Phileman as perfectly before me, as if some ancient Painter had drawn them; and all the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tdes, their Humours, their Features, and the very Dress, as distinctly...

...way of an extended comparison between his work and Ovid's, all done in a casually incisive manner: 'For an example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly...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...

...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 remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his... (CH, p. 162) It is this (mis)conception of the originality of Chaucer which governs Dryden's choice...