 | John Dryden - 1898 - 114 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. 'T is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...only to call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pages
...each other as much 30 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, 3? that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1900 - 330 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...distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is Gods plentv. To turn, however, from... | |
 | Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 pages
...vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned. But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game...me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not what to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. THE TRANSLATOR... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 628 pages
...only to call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1902 - 312 pages
...entertainment." — DR. JOHNSON. CHAUCER. If not the complete works, at least the Canterbury Tales. " It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is Ood's plenty." — DRYDEN. CICERO: Orations, Offices, Old Age, Friendship. Long's translation of the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...only to call to mind the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - 226 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." The late Professor ten... | |
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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. 
