 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1900 - 874 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 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... | |
 | Lars Edman - English language - 1861 - 100 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 - 1867 - 556 pages
...comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, be has taken into the compass image, all agree . That image is the ojl them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All hii... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 538 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 - English poetry - 1897 - 764 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 nge. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 524 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... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 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,... 
