 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 ページ
...generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. DE QUINCEY. ustom of viewing it only on the fairest side; or whether every m everything is altered. DRYDEN. Knowledge of man and manners, the freedom of habitudes, and conversation... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 ページ
...broadspeaking, gap-toothed wife of Bath. Wa have our forefather*, and great grand-dames all before us, us they were in Chaucer's days. Their general characters...than those of monks and friars, and canons, and lady abesses, and nuns : for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 ページ
...Chaucer's days ; their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though th y are called by other names than those of Monks and...Lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for mankind is ever the s«me, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.' It is not enough for a poet to... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 632 ページ
...critical level of his age, in the l'rologue ' we have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their general characters...remaining in mankind, and even in England, though th y are called by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 ページ
...'we have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; tncir general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though th:y are called by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 ページ
...the poorest, 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...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. May I have leave to do myself the justice, (since my 44 " A famous Italian physiognomist."... | |
 | John Dryden - 1891 - 352 ページ
...the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their general characters...and lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for mankind is ever tht same, and nothing lost out of nature, though every thing it altered. May I have leave to do myself... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 ページ
...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...names than those of monks, and friars, and canons, and ladyabbesses, and nuns ; for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 ページ
...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...names than those of monks, and friars, and canons, and ladyabbesses, and nuns ; for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 ページ
...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...names than those of monks, and friars, and canons, and ladyabbesses, and nuns ; for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything... | |
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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... 
