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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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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista 1'orta* could not have described their natures better than by the marks pays passing the gate It's a horror to think of. And so, the villa for nie, so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper...
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680-1638

Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 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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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...persons. Baptista Porta8 could not have described their natures better than by the marks which the ]Kx-t ooks be; to the end that every man may have them at once. For all the arc so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper...
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Chaucer devant la critique en Angleterre et en France depuis son temps jusqu ...

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1911 - 430 pages
...which the Poet gives them. The Mattor 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. Kven the grave and serious Characters are distinguish'd by their sevoral sorte of Gravity...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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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A History of English Prose Rhythm

George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 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 education, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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An Anthology of English Prose: (1332 to 1740)

Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 268 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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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900)

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 pages
...Phisiognomie* and Persons, Baptista Porta could not have describ'd 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 bo improper...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better than by the marks which the [90 nd rivers wide; Towers and so suited to their different educations, humors, and callings that each of them would be improper in...
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English Prose: Seventeenth century

Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 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 education, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper...
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