 If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies...  The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First ... - Stran 591avtor: John Dryden - 1800Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 strani
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends...writings ; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgment. If any thing of this nature, or of profaneness, be crept into these poems, I... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 strani
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends...are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town. But 1 will no more offend against good manners : I am sensible, as I ought to be, of the scandal I have... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 strani
...the Merchant the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would hare procured me as many friends and readers, as there...But I will no more offend against good manners . I 108 PREFACE PREFIXED TO THE FABLES. am sensible, as I ought to be, of the scandal ! have given by my... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 strani
...the Л1Н1er, the Shipman, ine Merchant the Sumner, and, ahove all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, as there are heaux and ladies of pleasure in the town. But I will no more offend against good manners ; l am sensihle,... | |
 | 1845 - 842 strani
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends...writings ; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgment. If any thing of this nature, or of profaneness, be crept into these poems, I... | |
 | 1845 - 816 strani
...the Merchant, tho Simmer, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would hare procured me as many friends and readers as there are...writings; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgment. If any thing of this nature, or of profaneness, be crept into these poems, I... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 strani
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends...writings ; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgment. If anything of this nature, or of profaneness be crept into these poems, I am... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 344 strani
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends...writings ; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgment. If any thing of this nature, or of profaneness, be crept into these poems, I... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 strani
...and others, he makes an especial boast of having avoided Dan Chaucer's improprieties, and adds : " But I will no more offend against good manners. I am sensible, as I ought to be, of the scandal 1 have given by my loose writings ; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgment."... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 strani
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and above all the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends...more offend against good manners. I am sensible, as 1 ought to be, of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able... | |
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