 | English poets - 1790 - Počet stránok 352
...becaufe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifh nation, in his age,. Not a fingle character has efcaped Mm. AH his pilgrims are feverally diftinguifhed... | |
 | 1793 - Počet stránok 806
...nation, in his age. Not a flngle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims arc fevcrilly didinguilhed from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very phyfiognonvtcs and perfbns. Rip:ifta Porta could not have dcfcribcd their natures better, than by the... | |
 | 1795 - Počet stránok 408
...becanfe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury Tales, the various manners and humours, as we now call them, of the whole Englifli nation in his age. Not a fingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - Počet stránok 806
...becaufe, as it lias been truly obfcrved of him, he has taken into the compafs of hit Canterbury tale* the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englilh nation, in his age. Not a .fingie character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are fevenlly... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - Počet stránok 842
...nation, in his age. Not a fingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverilly diflinguiihcd from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very phyfiognomies and perfons. Bjp'.ifla Porta could not have dcfcribcd their natures better, than by the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1795 - Počet stránok 322
...becaufe, as it has been truly " obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canter" bury Tales, the various manners and humours, as we now call " them, of the whole Englifh nation in his age : not a fmgle cha" rafter has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally... | |
 | 1798 - Počet stránok 560
...nation in his age. Not a (ingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims arc 1'evcraHy diitinguiihed from each other, and not only in their inclinations, but in their phyCognomies and perlons, linptiita Porta could not have delcribed their natures better than by the... | |
 | 1799 - Počet stránok 458
...nation in hit eye. Not a tingle character has efcaped him. All hi* pilgrims are fevcrally diftinguiflied from each other, and not only in their inclinations, but in their phyfiognomits and perfons. Baptifta Porta could not have defcribed their natures better, than by the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Počet stránok 712
...Admiralty, as appears from a letter written by Dryden in July 1699 ; which may be found in vol. i. character has escaped him. All his Pilgrims are severally...not only in their inclinations, but in their very phisiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta5 could not have described their natures better, than by the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Počet stránok 674
...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)...the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier and Luke Milbourne, each of whom had recently attacked our author. * The character... | |
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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, in... 
