 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1895 - 338 ページ
...the earliest dramatic genius of modern Europe, but to . ' ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterlmry Tales, their humours, their features, and the very...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.' (Dryden, Preface to The Pables.) have been a dramatist before that which is technically... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 ページ
...of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits;...as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in South wark; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light: which... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 ページ
...of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits;...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 114 ページ
...that he could see " all the pilgrims of the Canterbury Tales, their humors, their features, and their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark, in all which he excelled Ovid," and yet he expected to be " thought little less than mad... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 ページ
...the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an 30 example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. 35 Yet even there, too, the figures of Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1900 - 330 ページ
...Prologue,' and it is to be hoped that their number is legion, will say as Dryden said : ' I can see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours,...as if I had supped with them at the " Tabard " in Southwark.' And not only can we see them, we can see through them. Chaucer has given us more than dress,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1900 - 230 ページ
...various special and particular types of human society in the later Middle Ages. Dryden said, " I see all the pilgrims in the ' Canterbury Tales,' their...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. Some of his persons are vicious and some virtuous, some are unlearned and some are learned.... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1900 - 264 ページ
...painted with astonishing vividness. " I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales," says Dryden, "their humours, their features, and the very dress,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark." The Tales themselves take in the whole range of the poetry of the middle ages; the legend... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1906 - 380 ページ
...painted with astonishing vividness. " I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales" says Dryden, "their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them yat the Tabard in Southwark." The Tales themselves take in the whole range of the poetry and the life... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 500 ページ
...thoughtful and sententious clerk of Oxenford, deep in Aristotle and philosophy. "I see," writes Dryden, "all the pilgrims in the ' Canterbury Tales,' their humours, their features, and their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark." The Tabard... | |
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Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. 
