 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,...  A Short History of Modern English Literature - الصفحة 19بواسطة Edmund Gosse - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 416عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...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 and Luke... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 674
...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 and Luke... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...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 him.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...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 each other, not only in their inclinations,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...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 him.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...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 him.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...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 him.... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...It has been truly observed of him," says Dryden, (in the preface to his Fables,) that " 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 escapedhim.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...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 him.... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...It has been truly observed of him," says Dryden, (in the preface to his Fables,) that " 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.... | |
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