 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 sivua
...is called "the father of modern prose." His sensible style appears in this criticism of Chaucer : " He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 sivua
...practice so contrary to their doctrine. But this will keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take ' up Chaucer where I left him. He must have...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... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 sivua
...one another in lutiful gate of the city. The Pilgrim's Progress. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) ON CHAUCER HE must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 sivua
...practice so contrary to their doctrine. But this will keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take up Chaucer where I left him. He must have been...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,... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 704 sivua
...this Age, by a Practice so contrary to their Doctrine. But this will keep cold till another time. la the mean while, I take up Chaucer where I left him....comprehensive Nature, because, as it has been truly observ'd of him, he has taken into the Compass of his Canterbury Tales the various Manners and Humours... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 sivua
...pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. Essay of Dramatic Poesy 195 (Chaucer HE must have been a Man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 sivua
...is called " the father of modern prose." His sensible style appears in this criticism of Chaucer : " He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 sivua
...fit here- 35 after, to describe another sort of priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson ; such as have given the last blow to...practice so contrary to their doctrine. But this will 5 keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take up Chaucer where I left him. He must have been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 344 sivua
...fit here- 35 after, to describe another sort of priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson ; such as have given the last blow to...practice so contrary to their doctrine. But this will 5 keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take up Chaucer where I left him. He must have been... | |
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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,... 
