 | Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 sivua
...the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their general characters...names than those of Monks and Friars, and Canons, and 20 Lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything... | |
 | Beaumont Fletcher - 1908 - 272 sivua
...forefathers and great grandames all before us. . . . Their general characters are still remaining in mankind; for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered." Chaucer's pilgrims, however clearly delineated, were at best like the figures... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 sivua
...the proverb, that here is God 's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us erved!" His captive multitude. For he, be sure, In bighth everything is altered. EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SIR RICHARD STEELE (.1672-1729) PROSPECTUS. The Taller,... | |
 | 1910 - 482 sivua
...the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their general characters...are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, tho' they are call'd by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 sivua
...the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us ked, by a very ridiculous accident ; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust s ami even in England, though they, are called by other names than those of monks and friars and canons... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 sivua
...variously coloured attire, and underneath that attire the English character as we know it to-day, * for mankind is ever the same and nothing lost out of nature though everything is altered.' And nowhere is Chaucer's satire more all-pervasive, more elfin and elusive.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1912 - 628 sivua
...critical level of his age, in the Prologue ' we have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their general characters...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.' It is not enough for a poet to observe, however : what he observes must first... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 518 sivua
...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...those | of monks, | and friars, | and canons, | and lady-abbesses, | and nuns ; * for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 sivua
...Proverb, that. h.ej:e_Js_Gj^sJPJ^uity»\Ve have our Fore-fathers and Great Grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's Days; their general Characters...remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names than those of Moncks, and Fryars, and Chauous, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns: _For... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 sivua
...other names than those | of monks, | and friars, | and canons, | and lady-abbesses, | and nuns ; J for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. For South the following will do excellently : South. He came into the world... | |
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Tis 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 remaining in mankind, and even in England, though... 
