 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...gravity : their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 564 pages
...grave and ferious characters are diftinguiflied by their feveral forts of gravity : their difcourfes are fuch as belong to their age, their calling, and...them only. Some of his perfons are vicious, and fome virtuous; fome are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and fome are learned, Even the ribaldry... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...gravity ; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chancer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...gravity ; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or, (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...gravity : their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...gravity ; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or, (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...gravity ; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or, (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...gravity; their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
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Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only. 
