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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,... "
Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ... - Page 193
by John Bell - 1782
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An Anthology of English Prose: (1332 to 1740)

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...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

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...
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A History of English Prose Rhythm

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...
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Anniversary Papers by Colleagues and Pupils of George Lyman Kittredge ...

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...
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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900)

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...
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English Prose: Seventeenth century

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...
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Outlines of English and American Literature

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...
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An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Shewing the Main Stream of English ...

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...
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A History of English Literature

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,...
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Outlines of English Literature: With Readings

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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