 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 sivua
...when he says, ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours, their features, their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.' It is the peculiar felicity of Chaucer, that by a few strokes he has placed before us the... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 sivua
...all the pilgrims in the ' Canterbury Tales,'" said Dryden, " their humours, their features, and their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark." A strangely mixed and jocund company they were who set forth on the pilgrimage, then a... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1889 - 334 sivua
...therefore may fairly be said to be not only the earliest dramatic genius of modern Europe, but to 1 ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.' (Dryden, Preface to The Fables.) have been a dramatist before that which is technically... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1889 - 334 sivua
...therefore may fairly be said to be not only the earliest dramatic genius of modern Europe, but to 1 ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.' (Dryden, Preface to The Fables.) have been a dramatist before that which is technically... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 sivua
...physiognomies and persons. I see them as perfectly before me, — their humours, their features, and their very dress — as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different... | |
 | 1889 - 610 sivua
...picture gallery of medieval middle-class characters, well justifying Dryden's remark that ' he saw their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if he had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.' The connection between Boccaccio's tales too is... | |
 | K. Kaiser - 1891 - 120 sivua
...vigorous English society is painted with astonishing vividness. nI see all the pilgrims," says Dryden, n their humours, their features, and the very dress,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard." The tales take in the whole range of the poetry of the middle ages: the legend of the saint, the romance... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1891 - 338 sivua
...Europe, but to 1 ' I see all the pilgrims in the Cantei-lntry Tales, their humours, their features, ar.d the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at tlie Tabard in Southwark.' (Dryden, Preface to The Fables.) have been a dramatist before that which... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1892 - 348 sivua
...earliest dramatic genius of modern Europe, but to 1 ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury' Talcs, their humours, their features, and the very dress,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.' (Dryden, Preface to The Fables.) have been a dramatist before that which is technically... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1894 - 250 sivua
...astonishing vividness. " I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Talcs," says Dryden, "theirhumours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark." The Tales themselves take in the whole range of the poetry of the middle ages; the legend... | |
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Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. 
