| Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 272 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 Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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 Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 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... | |
| Literature - 1913 - 494 pages
...single one escaped him. It is very difficult to be certain that Chaucer " 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." The chances are against it, even if we did not know of other characters... | |
| Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 pages
...comprehensive Nature, because, as it lias been truly observ'd 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 Eiitjlusli Nation, in his Age. Not a single Character has escap'd him. All his Pilgrims are severally... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 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... | |
| William Joseph Long - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 588 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. . . . We have our fathers... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 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 Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil. . . . 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. . . . 'Tis sufficient to say,... | |
| William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 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. . . . We have our fathers... | |
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