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 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...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, in his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier... | |
 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...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 ' Jeremy Collier and Luke Milbourne, each of whom had recently attacked our author. 1 The character... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...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, in his age. Not a single 1 Jeremy Collier... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
 | John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, becanse, as it'has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales, the various mauners and humour, as we now call them, of the whole English nation in his eye. Not a single character... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
 | Robert Burns - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1808 - 496 pages
...must have been a man of 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 of the whole English nation, in his age. All his Pilgrims are severally distinguished from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...observed of him, he has taken into the compass of bis 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 distinguished from each other; and not only in their inclinations,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped... | |
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