 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 sivua
...; and therefore he speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so also he knows where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few...writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting the authors of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the jEneid. The author of the Essay on the Understanding... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 sivua
...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...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets1 is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 sivua
...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...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets1 is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 sivua
...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...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature everywhere ; but was never so bold as to go beyond her. The verse of Chaucer,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 sivua
...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 suhjects : as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practised... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 sivua
...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...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets 1 is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 sivua
...so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Komans Virgil: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature everywhere ; but was never so bold as to go beyond her. The verse of Chaucer,... | |
 | Lars Edman - 1861 - 100 sivua
...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...by any of the Ancients excepting Virgil and Horace. — Chaucer followed Nature every where, but was never so bold as to go beyond her and there is a great... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 sivua
...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...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets 1 is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sivua
...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...is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any l Cowley. conceit which came in his way ; but swept, like a drag-net, great and small.... | |
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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. . He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly... 
