 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1889 - 334 sivua
...8 ' 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 The Fables.} the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1889 - 334 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 The Fables.) the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1889 - 332 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 The Fables^ the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 sivua
...particular.34 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1892 - 348 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 The Fables.} the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 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 : lie is a. perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in. all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 sivua
...acknowledged that " he cuts us all out, and the ancients too ; " he who held Chaucer " in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil," surely had no narrow conception of the poetic art. But apart from his breadth of view there are three... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 sivua
...Chaucer he is yet more explicit. "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 - 1897 - 170 sivua
...English poet.] 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 say,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 sivua
...other matters : " 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... | |
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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... 
