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" The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. "
Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ... - Page 194
by John Bell - 1782
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English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from ...

George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...intransitively in the sense of agree, as a thing suits a person's taste, or one thing suits with another ; ' The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations and humours, that each would be improper in any other.' DRYDEN....
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3

John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1837 - 652 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptiste Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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Chapters on Early English Literature

J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 370 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptiste Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptists Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are BO suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would he improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished hy their several...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

England - 1845 - 816 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marb which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their diffères! educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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Specimens of the British Critics

John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baplista Porta could not have deserihed their natures hetter, than hy the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would he improper...
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