...the earliest dramatic genius of modern Europe, but to . ' ' I see all the pilgrims in the Canterlmry Tales, their humours, their features, and the very...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.' (Dryden, Preface to The Pables.) have been a dramatist before that which is technically...

...of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits;...as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in South wark; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light: which...

...of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits;...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light:...

...that he could see " all the pilgrims of the Canterbury Tales, their humors, their features, and their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark, in all which he excelled Ovid," and yet he expected to be " thought little less than mad...

...the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits. For an 30 example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. 35 Yet even there, too, the figures of Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better...

...Prologue,' and it is to be hoped that their number is legion, will say as Dryden said : ' I can see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours,...as if I had supped with them at the " Tabard " in Southwark.' And not only can we see them, we can see through them. Chaucer has given us more than dress,...

...various special and particular types of human society in the later Middle Ages. Dryden said, " I see all the pilgrims in the ' Canterbury Tales,' their...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark. Some of his persons are vicious and some virtuous, some are unlearned and some are learned....

...painted with astonishing vividness. " I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales," says Dryden, "their humours, their features, and the very dress,...distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark." The Tales themselves take in the whole range of the poetry of the middle ages; the legend...

...painted with astonishing vividness. " I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales" says Dryden, "their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them yat the Tabard in Southwark." The Tales themselves take in the whole range of the poetry and the life...

...thoughtful and sententious clerk of Oxenford, deep in Aristotle and philosophy. "I see," writes Dryden, "all the pilgrims in the ' Canterbury Tales,' their humours, their features, and their very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark." The Tabard...