 But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.  Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - 174 ページWilliam Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine 著 - 1910 - 437 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 472 ページ
...distinguished by their several sorts of gravity. " Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different. But " there is such a variety of game springing up before...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. " It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is " God's plenty." And soon after he... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 170 ページ
...as much as the mincing lady Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed 1 An Italian physiognomist. Wife of Bath. But enough of this: there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that 1 am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 ページ
...distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this; there is such a...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 ページ
...distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this; there is such a...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 ページ
...call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. The right comment upon it is Dryden's : ' It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.' And again : ' He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.' It is by a large, free, sound representation... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1900 - 330 ページ
...distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a...sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is Gods plenty. To turn, however, from Dryden's admirable preface to the versions from Chaucer that follow... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 ページ
...distinguished from each other as much 30 as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a...'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, 3? that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they... | |
 | Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 ページ
...vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned. But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game...me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not what to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. THE TRANSLATOR... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 ページ
...account of them, when, after some sentences describing the humours of the pilgrims, he concludes : " But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty." The Prologue to The... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 628 ページ
...call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. The right comment upon it is Dryden's : ' It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.' And again: 'He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.' It is by a large, free, sound representation... | |
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