 If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies...  The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First ... - Page 617by John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...Merchant, the Sumner, and above all, the Wife of Bathe, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have ps ocur'd me as many Friends and Readers, as there are Beaux and Ladies of Pleafurein theTown. But I will no more off-nd againft Good Manners: I am fenfible as I ought to be... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchants, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleafure in the town. But I will no more offend againft good manners : I am fenfible, as I ought to... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchants, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleafure in the town. But I will no more offend againft good manners: I am fenfible, as I ought to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchants, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends .and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleafure in the town. But I will no more offend againft good-manners : I am fenfible, as I ought to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...Merchants, t':e Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, wouU have prot cured me as many friends and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleafure in the town. But I will no more offend againft good-manners : I am fenftble, a* I ought to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchants, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, KJ there are beaux and ladies of pleafure in the town. But I will no more offend againft good.manners... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchants, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleafure in the town. But I will no more offend againft good-manners: I am fenfible, as I oqght to... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...the Miller, tht Shipman, the Merchant!, the Summer, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in tin prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleafure in the town. Hut I will no mere offend againd good-mannera : I am f.tilihle, as- 1 ought to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...the Miller, the Shipman, the MerchMU, the Summer, and, above all, the Wife of Bath in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, a* there tit beaux and ladies of pleafurc in the town. But I will no more offend againft good-manners... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchants, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleafure in the town. But I will no more offend againft good manners: lam fenfible, as I ought to be,... | |
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