 | John Bancks - 1739 - 396 pages
...Humours (as we now call them) of the whole ENGIISH Nation in his Age. All his Pilgrims are diftinguiflied from each other ; and not only in their Inclinations, but in their very Phyfiognomies and Perlbns, &C." [Pref. to DR YDE i/s Fables.] This happy Talent of delcribing human Nature, as it appears... | |
 | 1761 - 614 pages
..." and humours, as we now call them, of the whole En" glim nation, in his age. Not a fmgle character has " efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally...and not only in their inclinations but in " their phyfiognomies and perfons. Baptifta Porta could " not have defcribed their natures better than by the... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...and humours, as we now call them, of the whole En" glifh nation, in his age. Not a fingle character has " efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally...and not only in their inclinations but in " their phyfiognomies and perfons. Baptifta Porta could " not have defcribed their natures better than by the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 pages
...another time. In the mean while, I take up Chaucer where I left him. He muft have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufe, as it has...inclinations, but in their very phyfiognomies and perfons. Baptifla Porta could not have defcribed their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pages
...various manners and J:umours (as we now call them) of the whole Englifl: nation, in his age. Not af:ngle charafter has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverally...defcribed their natures better, than by the marks which tr.:e poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are fo fuited to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 pages
...of his Canterbury tales the various manners and! humours (as we now call them) of the whole Engliflr nation, in his age. Not a fingle charafter has efcaped...not only in their inclinations, but in/ their very phyf:ognomies and perfons. Baptifta Porta could not have defcribed their natures better, than by the... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...nation, in his age. Not a flngle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims arc fevcrilly didinguilhed from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very phyfiognonvtcs and perfbns. Rip:ifta Porta could not have dcfcribcd their natures better, than by the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 pages
...nation, in his age. Not a fingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims are feverilly diflinguiihcd from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very phyfiognomies and perfons. Bjp'.ifla Porta could not have dcfcribcd their natures better, than by the murks which the poet gives... | |
 | 1798 - 560 pages
...nation in his age. Not a (ingle character has efcaped him. All his pilgrims arc 1'evcraHy diitinguiihed from each other, and not only in their inclinations, but in their phyCognomies and perlons, linptiita Porta could not have delcribed their natures better than by the... | |
 | 1799 - 458 pages
...nation in hit eye. Not a tingle character has efcaped him. All hi* pilgrims are fevcrally diftinguiflied from each other, and not only in their inclinations, but in their phyfiognomits and perfons. Baptifta Porta could not have defcribed their natures better, than by the... | |
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Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their... 
