 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 pages
...gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...gravity ; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling^ and their breeding; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - English essays - 1900 - 330 pages
...gravity : their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious and some virtuous ; some are unlearn'd, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - 226 pages
...gravity : their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them), lewd, and... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 452 pages
...gravity ; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding, such as are becoming of them and of them only. Some of his persons 25 are vicious and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...gravity; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some vertuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...gravity; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding, such lyre I Hung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the persons are vicious and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 pages
...gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearn'd, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
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Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only. 
