 | Ruth Morse, Barry Windeatt - 2006 - 292 ページ
...the Proverb, that here is God's Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Grand-dames 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 . . . (CH, pp. 164-7) This series of generous recognitions of Chaucer's achievements... | |
 | Lee Patterson - 1991 - 489 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. (284-85) The reader's ability to recognize the English nation, despite the roughness of the... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 218 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. (2:262-63) The "God's plenty" of Chaucerian gold now appears as a transhistorical... | |
 | Trevor Ross, Trevor Thornton Ross - 2000 - 400 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
...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 - 967 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 - 420 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 - 241 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... 
