| John Dryden - 1898 - Počet stránok 170
...last appeared." Here follows a passage on Chaucer's life and religion. " He must have been a man of most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it...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,... | |
| John Dryden - 1899 - Počet stránok 222
...that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. ********* He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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,... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - Počet stránok 350
...fit here- 35 after, to describe another sort of priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson; such as have given the last blow to Christianity...But this will ? keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take up Chaucer where I left him. v_ He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive... | |
| Henry Charles Beeching - 1900 - Počet stránok 330
...it that in which he praises his substance ; for the praise is admirable, and the prose is Dryden's: He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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,... | |
| Annie Barnett - 1900 - Počet stránok 1060
...Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. IN PRAISE OF CHAUCER He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - Počet stránok 348
...fit here- 35 after, to describe another sort of priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson; such as have given the last blow to Christianity...practice so contrary to their doctrine. But this will 5 keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take up Chaucer where I left him. He must have been... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - Počet stránok 760
...of priests, such as are more easily to be found than the good parson ; such as have given the xiast blow to Christianity in this age by a practice so contrary to their doctrine. f But this will keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take up Chaucer I where I left him.... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - Počet stránok 226
...even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light." And again : " He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the very manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation,... | |
| Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - Počet stránok 452
...shown in the admirable passage on Chaucer, which may be cited for a final example of Dryden's work : He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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,... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - Počet stránok 422
...think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson, such as have given the last blow to Christianity in this age by a prac- 5 tice so contrary to their doctrine. But this will keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile... | |
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