| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 sivua
...usual style. " In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or...Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 sivua
...usual style. " In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or...Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 458 sivua
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or...Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks propirly on all subjects : as he knew what to... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 sivua
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or...Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 500 sivua
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or...Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to... | |
| 1808 - 546 sivua
...be found in the works of Cowley and his cotemporaries. " I hold Chaucer," says Dryden, " in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or...Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he knew what to say,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 sivua
...particular. . — ^ In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so 1 hold him in the same degree of veneration • as the Grecians held Homer,...Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects : as he knew what to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 sivua
...in particular. I n the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration"" as the Grecians held Homer,...Romans Virgil: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore sneaks properly on all subjects: as he knew what to say,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 sivua
...first place, as he isjhe father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration i" the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned ¡a ill «-¡enees ; and therefore sneaks properly on all subjects : as he knew what... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 sivua
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetnal fountain of good sense ; lean.ed in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects... | |
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