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" Chaucer has refined on Boccace, and has mended the stories which he has borrowed, in his way of telling ; though prose allows more liberty of thought, and the expression 1s more easy, when unconfined by numbers. "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Dryden, Smith, Duke ... - Page 17
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Fables Antient and Modern: Translated Into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace ...

John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...the £»glijhman has boirow'd many Tales from the Italian, yet it appears, that thofe of Boccace were not generally of his own making, but taken from Authors of former Ages, and by him only modell'd : So that what there was of Invention in either of them, may be judg'd equal. But Chaucer...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 3

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...the Englifhman has borrow'd many tales from the Italian, yet it appears that thofe of Boccace were not generally of his own making but taken from authors of former ages, and by him ' only modelled : fo that what there was of invention in. ekher of them, may be judged equal. But Chaucer has refined...
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A new and general biographical dictionary, Volume 3

New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...Englifliman has borrowed many tales from " the Italian, yet it appears, that thofe of Boccace were not " generally of his own making, but taken from authors of " former ages, and by him only modelled ; fo that what " was of invention in either of them, may be judged equal. " But Chaucer has refined...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 3

Biography - 1761 - 614 pages
...the Englifhman has borrowed many tales from " the Italian, yet it appears, that thofe of Boccace were not " generally of his own making, but taken from...authors of " former ages, and by him only modelled; fo that what " was of invention in either of them, may be judged equal. " But Chaucer has refined on...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...not generally of his own making but taken from authors of former ages, and by him only modelled : fo that what there was of invention in either of them,...Chaucer has refined on Boccace, and has mended the llories which he has borrowed, in his way of telling; though profe allows more liberty of thought,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...not generally of his own making but taken from authors cf former ages, and by him only modelled : fo that what there was of invention in either of them, may be judged equal. But Chaucer Las refined on Boccace, and has mended the ftories •which he has borrowed, in his way of telling;...
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British Biography; Or, An Accurate and Impartial Account of the Lives and ...

Joseph Towers - Bio-bibliography - 1773 - 498 pages
...the Engliihman has borrowed many tales from the Italian, yet it appears that thofe of Boccace were not generally of his own making, but taken from authors of former ages, and by him equal juftice and fpiiit j and in par- excellence of Chaucer was confined : ticular, the character...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...not generally of his own making, but taken from authors of former ages, and by him only modelled : fo that what there was of invention in either of them,...Chaucer has refined on Boccace, and has mended the ftories which he has borrowed, in his way of telling; though profe allows more liberty of thought,...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 20

English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...the Englifhman has borrowed many tales from the Italian, yet it appears that thofe of Boccace were not generally of his own making, but taken from authors of former ages, and by him only modelled : fo that what there v/as of invention in either of them, may be judged equal. But Chaucer has refined...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester ...

1793 - 806 pages
...the Englifliman has borrowed many tales from the Italian, yet it appear« that thofe of Boccace were not generally of his own making, but taken from authors of former ages, and by him only modelled ; fo that what there was of invention in cither of them, may be judged equal. But Chaucer has refined...
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