 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 272 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 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... | |
 | 1913 - 494 ページ
...single one escaped him. It is very difficult to be certain that Chaucer " 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." The chances are against it, even if we did not know of other characters... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 ページ
...comprehensive Nature, because, as it lias been truly observ'd 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 Eiitjlusli Nation, in his Age. Not a single Character has escap'd him. All his Pilgrims are severally... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 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... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 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. . . . We have our fathers... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 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 Buchan - 1923 - 746 ページ
...of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil. . . . 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. . . . 'Tis sufficient to say,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 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. . . . We have our fathers... | |
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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,... 
