 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1869 - 308 sivua
...• In the first place, as he (Chaucer) 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.' (Dryden's Preface to Tbe Fables.) 2. Some few nouns (originally forming the plural in -an) have -en,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 sivua
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, fo 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 538 sivua
...is the father of English poetry, sO I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians hold Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense, — learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. He must have been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sivua
...As he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecian held Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense : learned in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects : aa he knew what... | |
 | 1882 - 498 sivua
...German : In the first place, as he (Chaucer) 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. German. Higher Local.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 sivua
...noble Chaucer. — MICHAEL DRAYTON. 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 perpetual fountain of good-sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. — JOHN DRYDEN.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 sivua
...the original. " As Chaucer," he said, " 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. He must have been... | |
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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... 
