 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 557 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... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1011 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 - 379 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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926
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 | John Dryden - 1926
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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,... 
