 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1903 - 340 Seiten
...earliest dramatic genius of modern Europe, but to 1 ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Talcs, their humours, their features, and the very dress,...had supped with them at the Tabard in Southward.' (Dryden, Preface to The Fables.) have been a dramatist before that which is technically known as the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - 226 Seiten
...widely different from each other as two men can well be. Comparing Ovid and Chaucer, Dryden says : "I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark ; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light."... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 Seiten
...of them understood the manners, under which name I compre-35 hend the passions and in a larger sense the descriptions of persons and their very habits....and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humors, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 Seiten
...if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humors, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark: yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are 5 much more lively and set in a better light,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 Seiten
...of them understood the manners; under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits....distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. Yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light;... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 Seiten
...of them understood the manners, by which name I comprehend 10 the passions, and in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits....distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark ; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 Seiten
...of them understood the manners ; under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits....distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. Yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light;... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1909 - 638 Seiten
...characters in a book. Says Dryden : " I see all the pilgrims, their humours, their features and their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in South wark." Chaucer is the first English writer to bring the atmosphere of romantic interest about... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 Seiten
...if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humors, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supp'd with them at the Tabard in Southwark; yet even there too the figures of Chaucer are much more... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1911 - 430 Seiten
...of them understood the Manners ; under which Name I comprehend the Passions, and, in a larger Sense, the Descriptions of Persons, and their very Habits...Features, and the very Dress, as distinctly as if I had supp'd with them at the Tabard in Southwark : Yet even there, too, the Figures of Chaucer are much... | |
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Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. 
