 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,...  Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - Pagina 173di William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 437 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pagine
...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, in his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pagine
...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, in his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pagine
...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, in his age. Not a single ' Jeremy Collier and Luke Milbourne, each of whom had recently attacked our author. 1 The character... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pagine
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - 318 pagine
...must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, becanse, as it'has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales, the various mauners and humour, as we now call them, of the whole English nation in his eye. Not a single character... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pagine
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pagine
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1808 - 496 pagine
...must have been a man of 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 of the whole English nation, in his age. All his Pilgrims are severally distinguished from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pagine
...observed of him, he has taken into the compass of bis Canterbury) Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other; and not only in their inclinations,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pagine
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
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