 | Norman Klassen - 1995 - 242 páginas
...comments in his preface to Fabks Ancient amd Modem that both Ovid and Chaucer have a painterly manner: '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, iheir humours, their features, and the very dress as distinctly... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 páginas
...Bath's Tale^ The Cock smd the Fox0 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 distincjly... | |
 | 62 páginas
...of Baths 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... | |
 | Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson - 1955 - 518 páginas
...and most of Chaucer's stories were taken from his Italian contemporaries, or their predecessors.. . .Both of them understood the manners; under which...sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits.'1" He was conscious, in his age, of defending a paradox when he went on to say that 'the figures... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1925 - 448 páginas
...first, and J/ prompted Dryden to translate him. Surely the tone of this is too genuine to be questioned: "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 their very dress, as distinctly... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 páginas
...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 remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. 285 Both of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions and, in a larger... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 páginas
...Baths Tale, The Cock and tlie 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 Ooid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the Manners ; under which Name I comprehend the... | |
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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... 
