 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 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 lady-abbesses, and nuns; for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 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 lady-abbesses, and nuns; for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 114 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...by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Chanons, and lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 ページ
...critical level of his age, in the Prologue ' 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.' It is not enough for a poet to observe, however : what he observes must first... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 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...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. ***»###** Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond; and must first be polished... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 ページ
...proverb, 3? 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...mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of I Nature, though everything is altered. May I have I leave to do myself the justice, (since my enemies... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 ページ
...proverb, 35 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...and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns ; 5 for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of Nature, though everything is altered. May... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 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...are called by other names than those of Monks and Frinrs, and Canons, and lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 628 ページ
...critical level of his age, in the Prologue ' we have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their general characters...Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for mankind b ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.' It is not enough for... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 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...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. Dryden died in the year 1700, and the date may be conveniently taken as marking... | |
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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... 
