 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 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 dragnet great and small.... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 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 dragnet great and small.... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 Seiten
...Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all the sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects...knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 Seiten
...veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Bomans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense, esman and company he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a dragnet, great and small.... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 Seiten
...veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Bomans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense, es Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou...prison. CAL. You taught me language; and my profit poetsi is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 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. . . . Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her. . . . The verse of... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 Seiten
...subjects: as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practic'd by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients,...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets13 is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 Seiten
...sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also [10 when to leave off; a continence which is practised...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.... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 Seiten
...sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also [10 an company beciuse he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 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...knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practiced by few writers. . . . The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; there is... | |
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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... 
