 Prioress and the broad-speaking gap-toothed Wife of Bath. 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.  The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Page 501by John Dryden - 1897 - 662 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...Porta wrote a treatise DE HUMANA PHYSIOGNOMIA, in lour books, of which there have been many editions. as they were in Chaucer's days : their general characters...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered.4 May I have leave 4 " THE GENERAL PLAN of THE CANTERBURY TALES may be learned... | |
 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...Porta wrote a treatise DE HUMANA PHYSIOGNOMIA, in four books, of which there have been many editions. as they were in Chaucer's days : their general characters...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered.4 May I have leave 4 " THE GENERAL PLAN of THE CANTERBURY TALES may be learned... | |
 | John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand dames all before us as they were in Chancer's days; their general characters are still remaining...called by other names than those of monks and friars, of canons and lady abbesses and nuus, for mankind is ever the same, and nothing is lost out ot nature... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...God's plenty. We have our fore-fathers and great gramidames all before us, as they were in Chaucer'* days ; their general characters are still remaining...though they are called by other names than those of Mo:ilo and Friars, and Canons, and lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for mankind is ever the same, and nothing... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days : their...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered. May I have leave to do myself the justice, (since my enemies will do me none,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days : their...names than those of monks, and friars, and canons, and lady-abbesses, and nuns; for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though every... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers, and great granddames all before us, as they were iu Chaucer's days ; their general characters are still...by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Cbanons, and lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...God's plenty. We have our forefathers, and great granddames all before us, as they were io Chuucer's days ; their general characters are still remaining...by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Chanons, and lady Abbesses, and Nuns: for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers, and great granddnmes all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their...remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are caüed by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Chanons, and lady Abbesses, and Nuns : for... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...forefathers, and great granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their general characters arc still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though...by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Chanons, and lady Abbesses, and Nuns: for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature,... | |
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