 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 ページ
...the paradox of permanence and change: "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 . . . for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered"... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - 2002 - 312 ページ
...conversation, he remarks, here is God's Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's Days; their general Characters...remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names than those of Moncks, and Fryars. and Chanons. and Lady Abbesses. and Nuns: For... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 ページ
...to 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...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none,... | |
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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... 
