 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 pagina’s
...have tranflated, and fome others, I may juftly give our countryman the precedence in that part; fince I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them underftood the manners, under which name I comprehend the paffions, and, in a larger fenfe, the defcriptions... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 pagina’s
...have tranflated, and fome others, I may juftly give our countryman the precedence in that part; fince I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them underftood the manners, under which name I comprehend the paffions, and, in a larger fenfe, the defcriptions... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 pagina’s
...h;,ve tranQated, and fume others, ) may juftly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; fince I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them un•icrftood the manners, under which name I comprehend the palfions and, in a larger fenfe, the defcriptiont... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 pagina’s
...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...I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, 8 Chaucer in general, Mr. Tyrwhitt has remarked, " appears to have built his Tales, both serious and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pagina’s
...Chaucer's own invention. But that great poet was. not very conversant with the authors of which Chaucer's the descriptions of persons, and their very habits....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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pagina’s
...have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; 8 since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly...I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, 8 Chaucer in general, Mr. Tyrwbitt has remarked, " appears to have built his Tales, both serious and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pagina’s
...have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; 8 since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly...I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, 8 Chaucer in general, Mr. Tyrwhitt has remarked, " appears to have built his Tales, both serious and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pagina’s
...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...which was wholly his. Both of them understood the MANNEES ; under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, ' Chaucer in general,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 pagina’s
...tranflated, and fome others, I may jultly give our countryman the precedence in that part; fince 1 can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them underltood the manners, under which name I comprehend the paflions, and, in a larger fenfe, the defcriptions... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pagina’s
...have tranflated, and fome others, I may juftly give our countryman the precedence in that part; fince I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them underftood the manners, under which name I comprehend the pallions, and, in a larger fenfe, the descriptions... | |
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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... 
