 | John Dryden - 1928 - 54 ページ
...are unlearn'd, or (as Chaucer calls them)io lewd, and some are learn'd. Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different : the Reeve, the Miller, and...distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, 15 gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such... | |
 | 1909 - 498 ページ
...distinguish'd from each other, as much as the mincing Lady Prioress and the broad-speaking gap-tooth'd Wife of Bath. But enough of this: there is such a...sufficient to say, according 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... | |
 | Jerome Mitchell - 1987 - 284 ページ
...and the Cook, are several men, and distinguished from each other as much as the mincing LadyPrioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath....distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. This comes from Drydens... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 ページ
...the concrete particulars of individual men and women. *[H]ere', declares Dryden, 'is God's plenty': [T]here is such a variety of game springing up before...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow ... We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 ページ
...overwhelming the reader in an inexhaustible tide not of rhetoric but of representation and knowledge: "there is such a variety of game springing up before...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. "Fis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty" (2:284). This ideology... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 ページ
...are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned. Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different. The Reeve, the Miller, and...sufficient to say according 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... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 ページ
...alternative Dryden's Preface introduces us to his imaginative estate and to the chase of the mind's plenty: "such a Variety of Game springing up before me that...distracted in my Choice, and know not which to follow" ( Works vn: 37). In fact he chooses his game easily and judges with instructive point; throughout these... | |
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But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. 
