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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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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta2 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 ditlerent educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta2 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 diflerent educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1900 - 874 pages
...from each other ; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons. 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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A Specimen of Chaucer's Language with Explanatory Notes

Lars Edman - English language - 1861 - 100 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 literature of society, by Grace Wharton, Volume 1

Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 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 Literature of Society, Volume 1

Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 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 be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and ...

John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than br 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 Poetical Works of John Dryden

John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...physiognomies and persons, liaptista Portat 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 Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 538 pages
...features, and their very dress — as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. 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 poetical works of John Dryden, ed. by C.C. Clarke

John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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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