 | John Dryden - 1760 - Liczba stron: 526
...muft have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaule, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury...various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifh nation, in hjs age. Not a fingle character has efcaped him. AH his pilgrims are leverally... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - Liczba stron: 600
...been a " man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufc, •' as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into *' the compafs of his Canterbury...manners *' and humours, as we now call them, of the whole En" glifh nation, in his age. Not a fingle character has " efcaped him. All his pilgrims are... | |
 | 1761 - Liczba stron: 614
...have been a " man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufe, " as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into " the compafs of his Canterbury...manners " and humours, as we now call them, of the whole En" glim nation, in his age. Not a fmgle character has " efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - Liczba stron: 392
...muft have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury...various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifh nation, in his age. Not a fingle charafter has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1773 - Liczba stron: 498
...adds) have been a man of a moft wonderful compreheniive nature, becaufe, aa it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury Tales, (g) the various manners and humours. as we now call them, of the whole Engliih nation, in his age.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Liczba stron: 360
...muft have been a man of a mod wonderful comprehenf:ve nature, becaufe, as it ha» been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury...various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englift nation, in his age. Not a fingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Liczba stron: 364
...muft have been a man of a mod wonderful comprehenf:ve nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury tales the various manners and J:umours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifl: nation, in his age. Not af:ngle charafter has... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - Liczba stron: 352
...muft have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury...various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifh nation, in his age,. Not a fingle character has efcaped Mm. AH his pilgrims are feverally... | |
 | 1795 - Liczba stron: 408
..." have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becanfe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury...various manners and humours, as we now call them, of the whole Englifli nation in his age. Not a fingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - Liczba stron: 806
...where I left him. Me mad have been a man of a mod wonderful comprchenfive nature, becaufe, as it lias been truly obfcrved of him, he has taken into the compafs of hit Canterbury tale* the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englilh nation,... | |
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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,... 
