 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1911 - 430 pages
...même, George Their discourses are such as belong to their Age, their Calling and their Breeding ; suoh as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his Pereons are Vicious, and some Virtuous ; some are unlearn'd, or (as Chaucer calls them) Lewd, and some... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 518 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, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 268 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... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 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 Persona arc Vicious, and some Virtuous ; some are unlearn'd, or (as Cliancer calls them) Lewd, and... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 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... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 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... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 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... | |
 | Edward Albert - English literature - 1923 - 648 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 s'ome... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 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. 
