 | 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,... | |
 | Seth Lerer - 2006 - 446 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."22 Just over a hundred years later, in 1809, William Blake echoes Dryden, in... | |
 | Lee Patterson - 2007 - 253 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...nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered.12 Dryden is here drawing our attention to the great innovation of The Canterbury Tales, one... | |
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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... 
