 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
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1900 - 264 strani
...painted with astonishing vividness. " I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales," says Dryden, "their humours, their features, and the very dress,...had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark." The Tales themselves take in the whole range of the poetry of the middle ages; the legend of the saint,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 strani
...of Ovid which was wholly his. Both x 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. For an 30 example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1906 - 380 strani
...painted with astonishing vividness. " I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales" says Dryden, "their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them yat the Tabard in Southwark." The Tales themselves take in the whole range of the poetry and the life... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 500 strani
...thoughtful and sententious clerk of Oxenford, deep in Aristotle and philosophy. "I see," writes Dryden, "all the pilgrims in the ' Canterbury Tales,' their humours, their features, and their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark." The Tabard... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1903 - 336 strani
...therefore may fairly be said to be not only the earliest dramatic genius of modern Europe, but to 1 ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours,...had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.' (Dryden, Preface to The Fables.) have been a dramatist before that which is technically known as the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1903 - 340 strani
...earliest dramatic genius of modern Europe, but to 1 ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Talcs, their humours, their features, and the very dress,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southward.' (Dryden, Preface to The Fables.) have been a dramatist before that which is technically... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 strani
...of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners, under which name I compre-35 hend the passions and in a larger sense the descriptions...and 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... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1909 - 638 strani
...characters in a book. Says Dryden : " I see all the pilgrims, their humours, their features and their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in South wark." Chaucer is the first English writer to bring the atmosphere of romantic interest about... | |
 | 1910 - 482 strani
...nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions...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... | |
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