 | 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - 226 strani
...widely different from each other as two men can well be. Comparing Ovid and Chaucer, Dryden says : "I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark ; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light."... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 strani
...of them understood the manners, under which name I compre-35 hend 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 supped with them at the Tabard... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 strani
...if some ancient painter had drawn them; 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 in Southwark: yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are 5 much more lively and set in a better light,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 strani
...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....distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. Yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light;... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 strani
...of them understood the manners, by which name I comprehend 10 the passions, and in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits....distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark ; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 strani
...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....distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. Yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 strani
...if some ancient painter had drawn them; 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 in Southwark; yet even there too the figures of Chaucer are much more... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1911 - 430 strani
...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...Features, and the very Dress, as distinctly as if I had supp'd with them at the Tabard in Southwark : Yet even there, too, the Figures of Chaucer are much... | |
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Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. 
