 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 pages
...Bath's Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can...as if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - 1898 - 360 pages
...head of manners, tile passions are naturally included, as belonging to the characters. ID., p. 274. Manners, under which name I comprehend the passions,...the descriptions of persons and their very habits. 1699. ID., XI., p. 220. And my idea of comedy requires only that the pathos be kept in subordination... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 pages
...Bath's Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our 25 countryman the precedence in that part ; since I can...descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an 30 example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pages
...Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have " translated, and some others, I may justly give our 35" J • countryman the precedence in that part; since I can...remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both x of them understood the manners ; under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - 226 pages
...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,...as if some ancient painter had drawn them ; and all the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners, under which name I compre-35 hend the passions and in a larger sense the descriptions...as 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 pages
...Bath's Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can...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.... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...Bath's Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can...as if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 pages
...Bath's Tale," " The Cock and the Fox," which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; since I can...was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners, by which name I comprehend 10 the passions, and in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1911 - 430 pages
...the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our Countryman the Preoedence in that Part ; since I can remember nothing of Ovid...as if some ancient Painter had drawn them ; and all the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their Humours, their Features, and the very Dress, as distinctly... | |
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Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners; under which name I comprehend... 
