 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1875 - 382 sivua
...having quoted some not very difficult lines from the earlier poet whom he was modernizing, he proceeds : 'You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which...that his sense is scarce to be understood.' ' And Fuller to the same effect : 'In a century of years languages grow strangers to themselves ; as now... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1881 - 408 sivua
...quoted some not very difficult lines from the earlier poet whom he is modernizing, Dryden proceeds : ' You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete that his sense is scarce to be understood.'1 And Fuller to the same effect: 'In a names. At least half of these have now free course... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 sivua
...Yet if a man should have inquired of Boccace or of Chaucer, what need they had of introducing such characters, where obscene words were proper in their...answer they could have made ; for that reason, such tales shall be left untold by me. You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 sivua
..."Yet if a man," replies Dryden, "should have «nquired of him what need he had of introducing such characters where obscene words were proper in their...very indecent to be heard, I know not what answer he could have made." None was possible. The offence, nevertheless, was not what Dryden assumes. The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1891 - 352 sivua
...Yet if a man should have inquired of Boccace or of Chaucer, what need they had of introducing such characters, where obscene words were proper in their...his unequal numbers, which were mentioned before. — Vet many of his verses consist of ten syllables, and the words not much behind our present English... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 sivua
...Yet if a man should have inquired of Boccace or of Chaucer, what need they had of introducing such characters, where obscene words were proper in their...that reason, such tale shall be left untold by me. (From Preface to the Fables.) RELIGIO LAICI A POEM with so bold a title, and a name prefixed from which... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 sivua
...Yet if a man should have inquired of Boccace or of Chaucer, what need they had of introducing such characters, where obscene words were proper in their...that reason, such tale shall be left untold by me. (From Preface to the Fables.) RELIGIO LAICI A POEM with so bold a title, and a name prefixed from which... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 sivua
...Yet if a man should have inquired of Boccace or of Chaucer, what need they had of introducing such characters where obscene words were proper in their...have likewise more than one example of his unequal numbers,1 which were mentioned before. Yet many of his verses consist of ten syllables, and the words... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 sivua
...should have enquired of Boccace or of Chaucer, what need they had of introducing such char1 5 acters, where obscene words were proper in their mouths, but...answer they could have made; for that reason, such tales shall be left untold by me. You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 sivua
...very indecent to be heard ; I know not what answer they could have made ; for that reason, such tales shall be left untold by me. You have here a specimen...Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete, that his sense 20 is scarce to be understood ; and you have likewise more than one example of his unequal numbers,... | |
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I know not what answer they could have made ; for that reason, such tale shall be left untold by me. You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete, that his sense is scarce to be understood ; and you have likewise more than one... 
