Chaucer Quote by John Dryden Download Open image “Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chaucer Inspirational Love Nature
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“She had been getting ready for her journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Unlike the river and the bush and the beasts and birds of the natural world, the lipstick did not interest her; it held no… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit… But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In… — Jean Aitchison Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share
“Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24… — Jacopo della Quercia Copy Share Image
On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
