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,... The Harvard Classics - Página 1731909Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Dryden - 1800 - 662 páginas
...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 his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 712 páginas
...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 his age. Not a single ' Jeremy Collier and Luke Milbourne, each of whom had recently attacked our author. 1 The character... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...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 his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 458 páginas
...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 his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
| John Evans - 1807 - 318 páginas
...must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, becanse, as it'has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales, the various mauners and humour, as we now call them, of the whole English nation in his eye. Not a single character... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 páginas
...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 his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 500 páginas
...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 his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
| Robert Burns - 1808 - 496 páginas
...must have been a man of 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 of the whole English nation, in his age. All his Pilgrims are severally distinguished from... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 páginas
...observed of him, he has taken into the compass of bis Canterbury) Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other; and not only in their inclinations,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 páginas
...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 his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
| |