 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 sivua
...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...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 sivua
...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...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 sivua
...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...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 sivua
...above the critical level of his age, in the Prologue ' we have oui forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their...names than 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 everything... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 sivua
...stood above the 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...remaining in mankind, and even in England, though thiy are called by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns... | |
 | William Marvel Nevin - 1895 - 526 sivua
...stood above the critical level of his age : " in the Prologue we have our forefathers and grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their...general characters are still remaining in mankind, and in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Canons, Lady... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 sivua
...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...names than 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 everything... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 232 sivua
...that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. . We have our fore-fathers and grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their...other names than those of monks and friars and canons, ladyabbesses and nuns; for mankind is ever the same, and nothing is lost out of nature, though everything... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 126 sivua
...(as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned. . . . We have our forefathers and great-grandams all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their...names than 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 everything... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 170 sivua
...say, according to 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...names than 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 everything... | |
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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... 
