 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...observed of him," says Dryden, (in the preface to his Fables,) that " 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 in his age ; not a single character has escapedhim. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...observed of him," says Dryden, (in the preface to his Fables,) that " 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 in his age ; not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...observed of him,'' says Dryden, (in the preface to his Fables,) that " 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 in his age ; not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...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 in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...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 in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...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, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 370 pages
...In the well-known preface to his Fables he has observed, that " Chaucer has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales, the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the English nation in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 652 pages
...the host. It is this excellence which makes Dryden exclaim— " Chaucer has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales, the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the English nation in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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 in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
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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,... 
