 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 страници
...but the characters themselves for ever remain unaltered, and consequently they are the physiognomies of universal human life, beyond which nature never...those who would have been monks in the age of monkery, who in this deistical age are deists. As Linnaeus numbered the plants, so Chaucer numbered the classes... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1833 - 292 страници
...characters themselves for ever remain unaltered, and consequently they are the physiognomies of unirersal human life, beyond which nature never steps. Names...those who would have been monks in the age of monkery, who in this deistical age are deists. As Linnaeus numbered the plants, so Chaucer numbered the classes... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 292 страници
...the physiognomies of universal human life, beyond which nature never steps. Names alter — thing's never alter; I have known multitudes of those "who would have been monks in the age of monkery, who in this deistical age are deists. As Linmijus numbered the plants, so Chaucer numbered the classes... | |
 | 1846 - 292 страници
...the physiognomies of universal human life, beyond which nature never steps. Names alter— thing's never alter; I have known multitudes of those who would have been monks in, the age of monkery, who in this deistical age are deists. As Linnaeus numbered the plants, so Chaucer numbered the classes... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1859 - 288 страници
...but the characters themselves for ever remain unaltered, and consequently they are the physiognomies of universal human life, beyond which nature never...those who would have been monks in the age of monkery, who in this deistical age are deists. As Linnreus numbered the plants, so Chaucer numbered the classes... | |
 | 1865 - 810 страници
...his favourite maxims, and it is sufficiently suggestive. Here, again, is a clear incisive remark : " Names alter, " things never alter. I have known "...would have " been monks in the age of monkery, " and are deists in this deistical age." Then, for oddity, look at this :— " Moral " virtues do not exist... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 страници
...Canterbury Tales, some of the names or titles are altered by time, but the characters themselves for ever remain unaltered ; and consequently they are...those who would have been monks in the age of monkery, who in this deistical age are deists. As Newton numbered the stars, and as Linnaeus numbered the plants,... | |
 | 1865 - 538 страници
...his favourite maxims, and it is sufficiently suggestive. Here, again, is a clear incisive remark : " Names alter, " things never alter. I have known "...would have " been monks in the age of monkery, " and are deists in this deistical age." Then, for oddity, look at this : — " Moral " virtues do not exist;... | |
 | 1870 - 510 страници
...time, but the characters remain forever unaltered, and consequently they .are the physiognomies and lineaments of universal human life, beyond which Nature never steps. Names alter, things never alter. As Newton numbered the stars, and as Linnaeus numbered the plants, so Chaucer numbered the classes... | |
 | 1870 - 588 страници
...alle In felawship," as representative persons, "characters which compose all ages and nations," and " are the physiognomies or lineaments of universal human life, beyond which Nature never steps." This idea he sets forth in the grouping of the different personages, and is in general conception,... | |
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Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales, some of the names or titles are altered by time, but the characters themselves for ever remain unaltered ; and consequently they are the physiognomies or lineaments of universal human life,... 
