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" Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. "
The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Page 186
by John Dryden - 1832
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Fables Antient and Modern: Translated Into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace ...

John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...and their very Habits : For an Example, 1 fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if fome ancient Painter had drawn them ; and all the Pilgrims...Tales, their Humours, their Features, and the very Drefs, as diftinctly as if 1 had fupp'd with them at the Tabard in Southwark : Yet even there too the...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 3

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...very habits : for an example, 1 fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if fome antient painter had drawn them ; and all the pilgrims in the...tales, their humours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinctly as if 1 had fupped with them at the Tabard in Southwark : yet even there too the...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...habits: for an example example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfeftly before me, as if fome antient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the...tales, their humours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinftly as if I had fupped with them at the Tabard in Southwark: yet even there too the...
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British Biography; Or, An Accurate and Impartial Account of the Lives and ...

Joseph Towers - Bio-bibliography - 1773 - 498 pages
...; fo likewife he has given us as juft a pifture of himfelf. And, as Mr. Dryden obferves, thathefaw all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales, their humours, their features, and their very drefs, as diftinftly as if he had fupped with thcraat the TaiarJin South wark ; fo from...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...Canterbury tales, their humours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinftly as if I had fupped with them at the Tabard in Southwark : yet even there...too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and fet in a better light: which though I have not time to prove ; yet I appeal to the reader, and am fure...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 15

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...and their very habits : for an example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfeftly before me, as if fome ancient painter had drawn them ; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales, their rn:mours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinftly as if I had fupped with them at the Tabard...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 20

English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...and their very habits: for an example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if fome ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims...tales, their humours, their features, and the very drefs, as diftinctly as if I had fupped with them at the Tabard in Southwark: yet even there too the...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, 33 it Ipme ancient painter had drawn them j and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales, their humours, their features, and the very «lrefii, as; diftiniirly as if 1 had flipped with them at the Tabard in Southwark : yet even there...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 27

English literature - 1795 - 486 pages
...and their Very habits. For an example, I fee Biucii and Philemon as perfectly hefore me, as if lome ancient painter had drawn them ; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tiles, their humours, their features, and the very drcfs, as uftmftiy as if I had flipped with th:m...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...their veiy habits ; lor an example, I fee Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, a's if Ionic ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury ulcf, their humours, their features, and the very tirch, as diftin&ly ;.=, if I had flipped with them...
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