 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804
...the greatest discrimination, could h¿ve attained. What infinite variety of character is presented to us in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales ! It...private life of the fourteenth century in England. The Canterbury Tales is certainly one of the most extraordinary monuments of human genius. The splendour... | |
 | Library - 1827
...competitors. What infinite variety of character is presented to us in the Prologue to the Canterbury Talcs ! It is a copious and extensive review of the private life of the fourteenth century in England. JOHN OF GAUNT. JOHX of Gannt, Earl of Richmond, Duke of Lancaster, King of Castillc, and Duke of Aquitanc,... | |
 | 1835
...latter his success was marvellous. Mr. Godwin observes of the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, that it is a copious and extensive review of the private life of the fourteenth century in England. The editor adds that the tales taken as a whole may be considered one of the most splendid monuments... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke - 1835
...pourtrayed as the reflections in a camera lucida. Mr. Godwin truly observes of this Prologue, that " it is a copious and extensive review of the private life of the fourteenth century in England." The Canterbury Tales, indeed, taken as a whole, may be considered one of the most splendid monuments... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870
...pourtrayed as the reflections in a camera lucida. Mr. Godwin truly observes of this Prologue, that "it is a copious and extensive review of the private life of the fourteenth century in England." The Canterbury Tales, indeed, taken as a whole, may be considered one of the most splendid monuments... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke - 1870 - 626 pages
...pourtrayed as the reflections in a camera lucida. Mr. Godwin truly observes of this Prologue, that " it is a copious and extensive review of the private life of the fourteenth century in England." The Canterbury Tales, indeed, taken as a whole, may be considered one of the most splendid monuments... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925
...most extraordinary monuments of human genius . . . What infinite variety of character is presented to us in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales ! It is a copious and extensive leview of the private life of the fourteenth century in England. This has usually, and perhaps justly,... | |
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... displayed in a manner which none but a poet of the purest and sweetest dispositions, and at the same time of the greatest discrimination, could have attained. The Canterbury Tales is certainly one of the most extraordinary monuments of human genius... 