 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 ページ
...inquired of Boccace or of Chaucer, what need they had of introducing such characters where obscehe words were proper in their mouths, but very indecent...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,... | |
 | 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 ページ
...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...than one example of his unequal numbers, which were mention'd before. Yet many of his verses consist of ten syllables, and the words not much behind our... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 ページ
...what Answer they could have made : For that I Reason, such Tales shall be left untold by me. You 1 have here a Specimen of Chaucer's Language, which...than one Example of his unequal Numbers, which were mention'd before. Yet many of his Verses consist of Ten Syllables, and the Words not much behind our... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 ページ
...had of introducing such Characters, when 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 hero a Specimen of Chaucer's Language, which is so obsolete,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 ページ
....Yet if a man should have inquired of Boccace or of Chaucer, what need they had of introducing such characters, where obscene words were proper in their...that reason, such tale shall be left untold by me. (From Preface to the Fables.) RELIGIO LAICI A POEM with so bold a title, and a name prefixed from which... | |
 | John Dryden - 1921 - 332 ページ
...very indecent 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, "hat his sense is scarce to be understood; and you have likevise more than one example of his unequal... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 ページ
...dede. Yet if a man should have inquired of Boccace or of Chaucer what need they had of introducing such characters, where obscene words were proper in their...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,... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 704 ページ
...very undecent to be heard ; I know not what Answer they could have made : For that Eeason, such Tales shall be left untold by me. You have here a Specimen...than one Example of his unequal Numbers, which were mention'd before. Yet many of his Verses consist of Ten Syllables, and the Words not much behind our... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 ページ
...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 340 ページ
...introducing such char15 acters, 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,... | |
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I know not what answer they could have made ; for that reason, such tale shall be left untold by me. You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete, that his sense is scarce to be understood ; and you have likewise more than one... 
