 | William Godwin - 1804
...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
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1870
...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 - 1960
...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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