 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - Language and languages - 1925 - 448 pages
...appreciate one of Spenser's cardinal merits. Dryden on Chaucer is final: ". . .he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation in his age . . . All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 pages
...comprehensive Nature, because, as it has been truly observ'd of him, he has taken into the Compass of his Canterbury Tales the various Manners and Humours (as we now call them) of the whole English Nation, in his Age. Not a single Character has escap'd him. All his Pilgrims are severally... | |
 | 62 pages
...comprehensive Nature, because, as it has been truly observ'd of him, he has taken into the Compass of his Canterbury Tales the various Manners and Humours (as we now call them) of the whole English Nation, in his Age. Not a single Character has escap'd him. All his Pilgrims are severally... | |
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He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation,... 
