The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend... Seventeenth Century Prose - Stran 70uredili: - 1907 - 85 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| John Dryden - 1713 - 614 strani
...and their very Habits : For an Example, 1 fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if fome ancient Painter had drawn them ; and all the Pilgrims...Tales, their Humours, their Features, and the very Drefs, as diftinctly as if 1 had fupp'd with them at the Tabard in Southwark : Yet even there too the... | |
| John Dryden - 1760 - 526 strani
...very habits : for an example, 1 fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if fome antient painter had drawn them ; and all the pilgrims in the...tales, their humours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinctly as if 1 had fupped with them at the Tabard in Southwark : yet even there too the... | |
| John Dryden - 1767 - 392 strani
...habits: for an example example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfeftly before me, as if fome antient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the...tales, their humours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinftly as if I had fupped with them at the Tabard in Southwark: yet even there too the... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1773 - 498 strani
...; fo likewife he has given us as juft a pifture of himfelf. And, as Mr. Dryden obferves, thathefaw all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales, their humours, their features, and their very drefs, as diftinftly as if he had fupped with thcraat the TaiarJin South wark ; fo from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 strani
...and their very habits : for an example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfeftly before me, as if fome ancient painter had drawn them ; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales, their rn:mours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinftly as if I had fupped with them at the Tabard... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 352 strani
...and their very habits: for an example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if fome ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims...tales, their humours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinctly as if I had fupped with them at the Tabard in Southwark: yet even there too the... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 strani
...example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, 33 it Ipme ancient painter had drawn them j and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales, their humours, their features, and the very «lrefii, as; diftiniirly as if 1 had flipped with them at the Tabard in Southwark : yet even there... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 strani
...their veiy habits ; lor an example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, a's if Ionic ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury ulcf, their humours, their features, and the very tirch, as diftin&ly ;.=, if I had flipped with them... | |
| 1795 - 486 strani
...and their Very habits. For an example, I fee Biucii and Philemon as perfectly hefore me, as if lome ancient painter had drawn them ; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tiles, their humours, their features, and the very drcfs, as uftmftiy as if I had flipped with th:m... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 674 strani
...Chaucer's own invention. But that great poet was not very conversant with the authors of which Chaucer's the descriptions of persons, and their very habits....with them at the Tabard in Southwark." Yet even there library seems to have been composed. THE WIFE or BATHES TALE has been shewn above to be taken from... | |
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