...having quoted some not very difficult lines from the earlier poet whom he was modernizing, proceeds: " You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which...obsolete that his sense is scarce to be understood." Nor was it merely thus with respect of Chaucer. These wits and poets of the court of Charles the Second...

...quoted some not very difficult lines from the earlier poet whom he was modernizing, he proceeds : f You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which...obsolete that his sense is scarce to be understood." Nor was it merely thus with respect of Chaucer. These wits and poets of the court of Charles II. were...

...quoted some not very difficult lines from the earlier poet whom he was modernizing, he proceeds : " You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which...obsolete that his sense is scarce to be understood." Nor was it merely thus with respect of Chaucer. These wits and poets of the court of Charles II. were...

...quoted some not very difficult lines from the earlier poet whom he was modernizing, he proceeds : " You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which...obsolete that his sense is scarce to be understood." Nor was it merely thus with respect of Chaucer. These wits and poets of the court of Charles II. were...

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...delicacy. "Yet if a man," replies Dryden, "should have enquired of him what need he had of introducing such characters where obscene words were proper in their...very indecent to be heard, I know not what answer he could have made." None was possible. The offence, nevertheless, was not what Dryden assumes. The...

..."Yet if a man," replies Dryden, "should have «nquired of him what need he hud of introducing such characters where obscene words were proper in their...mouths, but very indecent to be heard, I know not what nnswer he could have made." None was possible. Tho offence, nevertheless, was not what Dryden assumes....

...of introducing such characters, where obscene words were proper in their mouths, but very undecent to be heard, I know not what answer they could have made ; for that reason, such tales shall be left untold by me. You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete,...

...having quoted some not very difficult lines from the earlier poet whom he was modernizing, he proceeds : 'You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which...that his sense is scarce to be understood.' ' And Fuller to the same effect : 'In a century of years languages grow strangers to themselves ; as now...

...quoted some not very difficult lines from the earlier poet whom he is modernizing, Dryden proceeds : ' You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete that his sense is scarce to be understood.'1 And Fuller to the same effect: 'In a names. At least half of these have now free course...