Chaucer devant la critique en Angleterre et en France depuis son temps jusqu'à nos joursHatchette et cie, 1911 - Broj stranica: 422 |
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Stranica 285 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations. As one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same ; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men. Nothing new occurs in identical existence ; accident ever varies, substance can never suffer change nor decav. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...
Stranica 46 - Bath's Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part; since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both 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...
Stranica 46 - Both of them were well-bred, well-natured, amorous, and libertine, at least in their writings; it may be also in their lives. Their studies were the same, philosophy and philology. Both of them were knowing in astronomy; of which Ovid's books of the Roman Feasts, and Chaucer's Treatise of the Astrolabe, are sufficient witnesses.
Stranica 193 - ... c'est l'art ou de réunir deux choses éloignées , ou de diviser deux choses qui paraissent se joindre, ou de les opposer l'une à l'autre ; c'est celui de ne dire qu'à moitié sa pensée pour la laisser deviner.
Stranica 287 - Chaucer makes every one of his characters perfect in his kind; every one is an antique statue, the image of a class, and not of an imperfect individual. This group also would furnish substantial matter, on which volumes might be written. The Franklin is one who keeps open table, who is the genius of eating and drinking, the Bacchus; as the Doctor of Physic is the Esculapius, the Host is the Silenus, the Squire is the Apollo, the Miller is the Hercules etc. Chaucer's characters are a description of...
Stranica 46 - 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, in his age.
Stranica 47 - But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Stranica 285 - ... son is like him with the germ of perhaps greater perfection still, as he blends literature and the arts with his warlike studies. Their dress and their horses are of the first rate, without ostentation, and with all the true grandeur that unaffected simplicity when in high rank always displays. The Squire's Yeoman is also a great character, a man perfectly knowing in his profession: And in his hand he bare a mighty bow.
Stranica 285 - The Knight is a true Hero, a good, great, and wise man ; his whole length portrait on horseback, as written by Chaucer, cannot be surpassed. He has spent his life in the field ; has ever been a conqueror, and is that species of character which in every age stands as the guardian of man against the oppressor.