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“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
William Hazlitt quotes (British Writer, best known for his humanistic essays. 1778-1830)

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“He [Chaucer] is a perpetual fountain of good sense.”
John Dryden quotes (British Poet, Dramatist and Critic of Literacy, 1631-1700)

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“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 quotes (American Writer, 1807-1892)

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“Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.”
Ben Jonson quotes (English Dramatist and Poet, 1572-1637)

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“Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.”
Walter Savage Landor quotes (English Writer best remembered for Imaginary Conversations, prose dialogues between historical personages. 1775-1864)

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“ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated with more heat than light by the outmates of every asylum for the insane. They have had to concede a few things since the time of Chaucer, but are none the less hot in defence of those to be conceded hereafter. A spelling reformer indicted For fudge was before the court cicted. The judge said: "Enough -- His candle we'll snough, And his sepulchre shall not be whicted."”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.”
James Joyce quotes (Irish novelist, 1882-1941)

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“He [Chaucer] lacks the high seriousness of the great classics, and therewith an important part of their virtue.”
Matthew Arnold quotes (English Victorian Poet and Critic of Literacy and Society. 1822-1888)

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“It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore."”
Francis X. Clines quotes

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