 | William Godwin - 1804 - 554 pàgines
...have experienced some of the same effects. It may be amusing to the fancy of a reader of Chaucer,s works, to represent to himself the young poet, accoutred...a jury, or exercising the subtlety of his wit and judgCHAP, ment in the developement of one of those .A. Vlil. ' — '" •• quirks by which a client... | |
 | 1804 - 994 pàgines
...proceeding i:i which he wa< shortly to engage, he must have experienced sonte of the same effects. " It may be amusing to the fancy of a/ reader of Chaucer's works, to represent w: himself the young poet, accoutred in tb» robes of u lawyer, examining a witness,- tr ins upon him... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pàgines
...introduced ; for Chaucer certainly studied at the Temple,i and is supposed to have been bred to the bar. " It may be amusing to the fancy of a reader of Chaucer's...a jury, or exercising the subtlety of his wit and judgment in the developement of one of those quirks by which a client was to be rescued from the rigour... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pàgines
...is supposed to have been bred to the bar. " It may be amusing to the fancy of n reader of Chancer's works, to represent to himself the young poet accoutred...a jury, or exercising the subtlety of his wit and judgment in the development of one of those quirks by which a client was to be rescued from the rigour... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 488 pàgines
...introduced ; for Chaucer certainly studied at the Temple,1 and is supposed to have been bred to the bar. " It may be amusing to the fancy of a reader of Chaucer's...a jury, or exercising the subtlety of his wit and judgment in the developement of one of those quirks by which a client was to be rescued from the rigour... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1911 - 430 pàgines
...termine ce passage sur l'administration de la justice, montre assez le style du livre entier : — It may be amusing to the fancy of a reader of Chaucer's works, to represent to himself the young poet, accoutree] in the robes of a lawyer, examining a witness, fixing upon him the keenness of his eye,... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1919 - 382 pàgines
...proceeding, in which he was shortly to engage, he must have experienced some of the same effects. ' It may be amusing to the fancy of a reader of Chaucer's...expectation to a jury, or exercising the subtlety of his wit andjudgment in the development of one of those quirks by which a client was to be rescued from the... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 704 pàgines
...paragraph, with which this section on law closes, sufficiently indicates the style of the whole book : — ' It may be amusing to the fancy of a reader of Chaucer's works, to represent to himself the No wonder Mrs. Godwin confidentially asked Charles Lamb whether he did not think there was rather too... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 pàgines
...records, which proved it could not be autobiographical, the faith of critics in Chaucer's authorship of the young poet, accoutred in the robes of a lawyer,...a jury, or exercising the subtlety of his wit and judgment in the development of one of those quirks by which a client was to be rescued from the rigour... | |
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It may be amusing to the fancy of a reader of Chaucer's works, to represent to himself the young poet accoutred in the robes of a lawyer, examining a witness, fixing upon him the keenness of his eye, addressing himself with anxiety and expectation to... 