...and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an 1 A. 3176-3181. example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before...all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, — their humors, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard...

...manners, under which name I comprehend the pas1 Roman poet (43 BC-AD 17). sions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an example, I see Baucis and Philemon1 as perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in...

...the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an 30 example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. 35 Yet even there too the figures of Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light...

...them under15 stood the manners ; under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits....perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn 20 them ; and all the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours, their features, and the very...

...of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits;...and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humors, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supp'd with them at the Tabard...

...his Preface to the Fables (1700): comparing Chaucer to Ovid he declares, "1 see Baucis and Phileman as perfectly before me, as if some ancient Painter...drawn them; and all the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tdes, their Humours, their Features, and the very Dress, as distinctly as if I had supp'd with them...

...[Miscellaneous Prose Works, 17:70] Scott's view of Chaucer's pilgrims is the same as Dryden's: I see . . . all the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales," their...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. . . . Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer...

...way of an extended comparison between his work and Ovid's, all done in a casually incisive manner: 'For an example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark'. The distinction between 'sup' and 'see' conveys a sense of Dryden's own gusto and makes...

...comments in his preface to Fabks Ancient amd Modem that both Ovid and Chaucer have a painterly manner: 'I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me...them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, iheir humours, their features, and the very dress as distinctly as if I had supped with mem at the...

...using a trope we have already encountered. Here is Dryden praising Chaucer's naturalism: "1 see ... all the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales. their Humours,...Features, and the very Dress, as distinctly as if 1 had supp'd with them at the Tabard in Southwark," Fry links this passage to Dryden's discussions...