 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 Seiten
...sense, learned in all science», and tlierefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he kne\v what (o say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, except Virgil and Horace. " This character Chaucer certainly deserved. He had read a great deal ; and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 Seiten
...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...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets f is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 Seiten
...veneration, as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans, Virgil. He has a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects, as he knew what to say, so he knew also when to leave off,—a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any... | |
 | John Platts - 1825 - 562 Seiten
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, except Virgil and Horace." This character Chaucer certainly deserved. He had read a great deal, and... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 Seiten
...all ; Weivith thy luste, and let thy ghost the lede And trouthe the shall delivir, it is no drede. and therefore speaks properly on all subjects : as...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature every where, but was never bo bold to go beyond her ; and there is a great... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 Seiten
...all ; Weivith thy luste, and let ihy ghost the lede And trouthe the shall delivir, it is no drede. and therefore speaks properly on all subjects : as...he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave oft', a fcontinence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 Seiten
...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...late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept like a drag-net, great and small.... | |
 | 1834 - 454 Seiten
...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...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Our account of his principal works must be brief. The Romaunt of the Rose is professedly a translation... | |
 | 1834 - 514 Seiten
...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...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Our account of his principal works must be brief. The Romaunt of the Rose is professedly a translation... | |
 | 1834 - 304 Seiten
...of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he kne\v what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Our account of his principal works must be brief. The Romaunt of the Rose is professedly a translation... | |
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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, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the... 
