 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...only to call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tails. The right comment upon it is Dryden's : ' It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.' And again : ' He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.' It is by a large, free, sound representation... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 pages
...each other, as much as the mincing lady prioress, and the broad-speaking gap-toothed wife of Bath. But enough of this : there is such a variety of game...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 232 pages
...everything is altered. Speaking in the same place of Chaucer's wonderful variety, Dryden says, " 'T is sufficient to say according to the proverb that here is God's plenty ". Lowell, the American critic, declares that "Chaucer is the first great poet who has treated To-day... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 pages
...of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 472 pages
...distinguished by their several sorts of gravity. " Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different. But " there is such a variety of game springing up before...according to the proverb, that here is " God's plenty." And soon after he goes on to assert (though Heaven knows in terms far below the whole truth) the superiority... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 170 pages
...mincing lady Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed 1 An Italian physiognomist. Wife of Bath. But enough of this: there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that 1 am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 166 pages
...game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. "Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their general... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 pages
...from each other as much as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this; there is such a variety of game...according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days : their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 pages
...from each other as much as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this; there is such a variety of game...according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days : their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 148 pages
...mincing lady Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed 1 An Italian physiognomist. Wife of Bath. But enough of this: there is such a variety of game...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers... | |
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But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. 
