 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 strani
...the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great -granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days : their general characters are still remaining DRY DEN in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks... | |
 | 1913 - 788 strani
...plenty. We have our forefathers and great-granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's day; their general characters are still remaining in mankind,...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. This England of Chaucer it was that was revived in the pilgrimage that, on May... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 strani
...Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Grand-dames all before us, as they were in Clutuc.er's Pays ; their general Characters are still remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names than those of Moncks, and Fnjnrs, and Citations, and Lady Abbesses, and A'uns:... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 strani
...Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though [120 they are called by other names than those of monks,...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature though everything is altered. DANIEL DEFOE (1660P-1731) From THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN Satire, be kind, and... | |
 | C. David Benson - 1986 - 200 strani
...that the pilgrims conform to the universal laws of nature, or, in other words, that they are types: "their general Characters are still remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names than those of Moncks. and Fryors, and Chonons. and Lady .Abbesses. and Nuns:... | |
 | Ruth Morse, Barry Windeatt - 2006 - 296 strani
...the Proverb, that here is God's Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's Days; their general Characters...remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names . . . (CH, pp. 164-7) This series of generous recognitions of Chaucer's achievements... | |
 | Lee Patterson - 1991 - 508 strani
...the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters...nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered. (284-85) The reader's ability to recognize the English nation, despite the roughness of the... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 strani
...the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their general characters...ever the same, and nothing lost out of Nature, though everything is altered. (2:262-63) The "God's plenty" of Chaucerian gold now appears as a transhistorical... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 strani
...the paradox of permanence and change: "We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind . . . for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered"... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - 2002 - 312 strani
...conversation, he remarks, here is God's Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's Days; their general Characters...remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names than those of Moncks, and Fryars. and Chanons. and Lady Abbesses. and Nuns: For... | |
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Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though... 
