 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1905 - 354 pages
...only to call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. The right comment upon it is Dryden's : ' It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.' And again : ' He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.' It is , by a large, free, sound representation... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English prose literature - 1907 - 112 pages
...game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. "Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days ; their general characters are still... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...have only to call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. The right comment upon it is Dryden's: "It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty." And again: " He is a perpetual fountain of good sense." It is by a large, free, sound representation... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. SIR W. TEMPLE OF POETRY T KNOW very well that many, who pretend to be wise by ••• the forms of... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...this: there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice and know rch the remaining part great-grand-dames all before us as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...this: there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice and know en's high jurisdiction, in new league Banded against his throne, but to remain 320 I God 's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us as they were in Chaucer's... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 518 pages
...such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not what to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the...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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. "Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that...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... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 272 pages
...of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. Preface to the Fables JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) PATERNAL POWER Though I have said above " that all men... | |
 | American literature - 1913 - 788 pages
...characters he sketches in his prologue. It was of this prologue that Dryden wrote this famous passage: 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's day; their general characters are still remaining... | |
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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. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. 
