 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 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, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 ページ
...com20 prehensive 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 - 1928 - 54 ページ
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been 30 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 35 severally... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - 1928 - 422 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... | |
 | Mihai Spariosu - 1984 - 336 ページ
...wonderful comprehensive Nature, because as it has 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 English 45 Nation, in his age. Not a single Character has escap'd him." Dryden's praise for Chaucer's... | |
 | Lee Patterson - 1991 - 508 ページ
...evidence in his representation of character. Chaucer, Dryden famously said, 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,... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - 2002 - 312 ページ
...become reminiscent of Shakespeare criticism, Dryden writes that here Chaucer "has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call theml of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him." After praising... | |
 | Glenn Burger - 300 ページ
...ability of his poetry to transmit the history of the English nation: 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. Not a single character has escaped him — Tis suff1cient to say,... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 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... | |
 | Lee Patterson - 2007 - 253 ページ
...preface includes a well-known passage, in which Dryden asserts 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. . . . 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here... | |
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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,... 
