 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 pages
...are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and s'ome are learned. Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different ; the Reeve, the Miller, and...sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that "Here is God's plenty." We have our forefathers and great-granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's... | |
 | Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - 1924 - 148 pages
...gentlemanly style of his prose, full of a cultured common-sense and an easy mastery of the language : — But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game...sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-granddames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...the Cook, are several men, 238 and distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gaptoothed Wife of Bath. But...sufficient to say, according to the Proverb, that here is God's plenty. Preface to the Fables 196 T)ryden Cjrown Old I HAVE added some Original Papers of... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 704 pages
...each other, as much as the mincing Lady-Prioress, and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bathe. But enough of this : There is such a Variety of Game...'Tis sufficient to say according to the Proverb, that hew is God's Plenty. We have our Fore-fathers and Great Grand-dames all before us, as they were in... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1925 - 488 pages
...are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned. Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different ; the Reeve, the Miller, and...other as much as the mincing Lady Prioress, and the broad -speaking, gaptoothed wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 pages
...are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned. Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different : the Reeve, the Miller, and...distinguished 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... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pages
...are unlearn'd, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learn'd. Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different : the Reeve, the Miller, and...distinguished 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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pages
...are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some are learned. Even the ribaldry of the Low Characters is different : the Reeve, the Miller, and...distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gaptoothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...the Cook, are several men, and distinguished from each other as much 30 as the mincing Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath....follow. 'Tis sufficient to say according to the proverb, 35 that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great-grand-dames all before us, as they... | |
 | Frederic W. Robinson - 1928 - 96 pages
...scaly rind, Moors by her side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays. (e) There is such a variety of game springing up before...sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. (/) It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised... | |
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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. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. 
