 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 272 pages
...which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 518 pages
...| raise himself j as high j above the rest | of poets Quantum lenta Solent inter viburna cuprtssi. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. . . . He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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,... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 pages
...think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of Priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson ; such as have given the last Blow to...Doctrine. But this will keep cold till another time, lu the mean while, I take up Chaucer where 1 left him. He must have been a Man of a most wonderful... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his [80 Canterbury Tales the various manners and humors (as we now call them) of the whole English... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...Demetri, teque, Tigelli, Disciputorum inter jubeoplorare cathedras." (From Preface to the Fables) CHAUCER HE must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 588 pages
...is called "the father of modern prose." His sensible style appears in this criticism of Chaucer : " He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...practice so contrary to their doctrine. But this will keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take ' up Chaucer where I left him. He must have...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... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...one another in lutiful gate of the city. The Pilgrim's Progress. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) ON CHAUCER HE must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1925 - 424 pages
...practice so contrary to their doctrine. But this will keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take up Chaucer where I left him. He must have been...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,... | |
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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,... 
