 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - Počet stránok 556
...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,...not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - Počet stránok 342
...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)...not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - Počet stránok 478
...hecause, as it has heen truly ohserved of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterhury tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them)...from each other ; and not only in their inclinations, hut in their very physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have descrihed their natures... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - Počet stránok 482
...observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury tales the various manners and humoura (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a dingle character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other : and... | |
 | 1837 - Počet stránok 652
...excellence which makes Dryden exclaim— " Chaucer has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales, the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the English nation in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - 1837 - Počet stránok 370
...preface to his Fables he has observed, that " Chaucer has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales, the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the English nation in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 842
...him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we may now call them) of the whole English nation, in his...not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 816
...taken into the compass ot his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we may now rail them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not...not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - Počet stránok 360
...him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we may now call them) of the whole English nation, in his...not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - Počet stránok 318
...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)...distinguished from each other ; and not only in their inch'nations, but in their very physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described... | |
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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... 
