 | 1798 - 560 ページ
...adds) have been a man of a moil wonderful comprehenftve nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury Tales, the various manners and luimours, as we now call them, of the whole Engliih nation in his age. Not a (ingle character has efcaped... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 ページ
...muft have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury...various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifli nation, in his age. Not a finglc character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 ページ
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his CANTERBURY TALES the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier and Luke Milbourne, each of whom had... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 ページ
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his CANTERBURY TALES the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier and Luke Milbourne, each of whom had... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 ページ
...mud have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferveit o~f him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury tales the various rrunners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifh nation^ in his age. Not a fmgle character... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 ページ
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury tales, the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims ase severally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 ページ
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 ページ
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 ページ
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are seterally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 564 ページ
...muft have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehen(ive nature, becaufe, as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs of his Canterbury...various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifli nation, in his age. Not a Jingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally... | |
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He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation,... 
