 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 pages
...other names than those | of monks, | and friars, | and canons, | and lady-abbesses, | and nuns ; J for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. For South the following will do excellently : South. He came into the world... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great -granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days : their general characters are still remaining DRY DEN in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks... | |
 | American literature - 1913 - 788 pages
...plenty. We have our forefathers and great-granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's day; their general characters are still remaining in mankind,...ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. This England of Chaucer it was that was revived in the pilgrimage that, on May... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 pages
...Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Grand-dames all before us, as they were in Clutuc.er's Pays ; their general Characters are still remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names than those of Moncks, and Fnjnrs, and Citations, and Lady Abbesses, and A'uns:... | |
 | C. David Benson - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 200 pages
...that the pilgrims conform to the universal laws of nature, or, in other words, that they are types: "their general Characters are still remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names than those of Moncks. and Fryors, and Chonons. and Lady .Abbesses. and Nuns:... | |
 | Ruth Morse, Barry Windeatt - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 296 pages
...the Proverb, that here is God's Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's Days; their general Characters...remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names . . . (CH, pp. 164-7) This series of generous recognitions of Chaucer's achievements... | |
 | Lee Patterson - Poetry - 1991 - 508 pages
...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 general characters...nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered. (284-85) The reader's ability to recognize the English nation, despite the roughness of the... | |
 | Kevin Pask - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 238 pages
...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 general characters...ever the same, and nothing lost out of Nature, though everything is altered. (2:262-63) The "God's plenty" of Chaucerian gold now appears as a transhistorical... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 412 pages
...the paradox of permanence and change: "We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind . . . for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though every thing is altered"... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - Authors and readers - 2002 - 312 pages
...conversation, he remarks, here is God's Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's Days; their general Characters...remaining in Mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other Names than those of Moncks, and Fryars. and Chanons. and Lady Abbesses. and Nuns: For... | |
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Tis sufficient to say, 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 general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though... 
