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" 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,... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors - Page 143
by Allan Cunningham - 1859
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A Commentary on the Poetry of Chaucer & Spenser

Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - 394 pages
...or rather when exalting it above the " dumb dollies " of Stothard. " The characters ' of Chaucer's ' Pilgrims ' are the characters which compose all ages...same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, and minerals, and in men. Nothing new occurs in identical existence; accident ever varies,...
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English Critical Essays (nineteenth Century)

Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pages
...lodgynge-house for Pilgrims who journey to Saint Thomas's Shrine at Canterbury.' The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages...same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men. Nothing new occurs in identical existence ; Accident ever varies,...
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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion 1357-1900, Volume 2

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 486 pages
...The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the diameters which compose all ages and nations : as ono age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight,...same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men ; nothing new occurs Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his...
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The Reader, Volume 1

1925 - 638 pages
...we live to-day. Blake very truly says of Chaucer's pilgrims : — "The characters which compose them are the characters which compose all ages and nations....different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same. ... Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his 'Canterbury Tales,' some of the 'names or titles are...
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William Blake

Osbert Burdett - 1926 - 216 pages
...How just, and yet how like Blake, is the following general reflection: The characters of Chaucer's pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages...same characters repeated again and again in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men ; nothing new occurs in identical existence. Accident ever varies;...
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The Prophetic Writings of William Blake: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Blake - 1926 - 398 pages
...lodgynge-house for Pilgrims, who journey to Saint Thomas's Shrine at Canterbury." The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages...same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men ; nothing new occurs in iden-| Page 10 tical existence ; Accident...
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The Life of William Blake

Mona Wilson - 1927 - 476 pages
...distinction between " minute particulars " and irrelevant details. He writes: The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages...same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies,...
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Complete Writings: With Variant Readings

William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...Shrine at "Canterbury." The Characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the Characters that compose all Ages & Nations; as one Age falls another rises, different...same; for we see the same Characters repeated again & again, in Animals, in Vegetables, in Minerals & in Men. Nothing new occurs in Identical Existence...
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SF: The Other Side of Realism

Thomas D. Clareson - 1971 - 380 pages
...modern idiom and context, of a vision of life as old as man's imagination itself. In human history, "As one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same . . . nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change...
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The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Volume 2

William Blake - 1893 - 456 pages
...lodgynge house for Pilgrims who journey to St. Thomas' Shrine at Canterbury." The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages...same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men. Nothing new occurs in identical existence ; accident ever varies....
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