 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1894 - Liczba stron: 610
...exact description of each ; so that, to quote the words of Dryden, ' 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.' § 3. As to the date when this idea of forming a continuous series... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - Liczba stron: 648
...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 him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1894 - Liczba stron: 604
...exact description of each ; so that, to quote the words of Dryden, ' 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.' § 3. As to the date when this idea of forming a continuous series... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - Liczba stron: 648
...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 him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1900 - Liczba stron: 610
...exact description of each ; so that, to quote the words of Dryden, ' 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.' § 3. As to the date when this idea of forming a continuous series... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - Liczba stron: 232
...belong to men of their class and type in every age. As Dryden has it, Chaucer 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 him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - Liczba stron: 330
...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 him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - Liczba stron: 170
...comprehensive rature, 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 him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - Liczba stron: 148
...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 him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - Liczba stron: 170
...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 him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
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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,... 
