But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. The Harvard Classics - Página 1741909Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 374 páginas
...distinguished by their several sorts of gravity. Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different. But there is such a variety of game springing up before...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.' And soon after he goes... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 476 páginas
...distinguished by their several sorts of gravity. " Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different. But " there is such a variety of game springing up before...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. " It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is " God's plenty." And soon after he... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 376 páginas
...game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.' And soon after he goes on to assert (though Heaven knows in terms far below the whole truth), the superiority... | |
| John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 páginas
...distinguished from each other, as much as the mincing lady Prioress and the broad-speaking gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this : there is such a variety of Rame springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow T,s sufficient... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 páginas
...distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady Prioress, and the broadspeaking, gap-toothed wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a...me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not what to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 páginas
...distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady Prioress, and the broadspeaking, gap-toothed wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a...me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not what to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 páginas
...game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not what to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their general characters are still... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 páginas
...call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tails. The right comment upon it is Dryden's : ' It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.' And again : ' He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.' It is by a large, free, sound representation... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 páginas
...distinguished from each other, as much as the mincing lady prioress, and the broad-speaking gap-toothed wife of Bath. But enough of this : there is such a...here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their general characters are still... | |
| Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 232 páginas
...everything is altered. Speaking in the same place of Chaucer's wonderful variety, Dryden says, " 'T is sufficient to say according to the proverb that here is God's plenty ". Lowell, the American critic, declares that "Chaucer is the first great poet who has treated To-day... | |
| |