 | John Dryden - 1898 - Počet stránok 114
...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...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - Počet stránok 148
...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;...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go beyond her: and there is a great... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - Počet stránok 170
...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....any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." " Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - Počet stránok 120
...Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Vergil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences : and therefore speaks properly on all subjects...knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practiced by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Vergil and Horace. . . . "... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - Počet stránok 222
...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;...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go beyond her: and there is a great difference... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - Počet stránok 224
...than to invent themselves ; as is evident not only in our poetry, but in many of our manufactures. he knows also when to leave off, a continence which...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go beyond her: and there is a great difference... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - Počet stránok 834
...Grecians held Homer, or the Eomans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects....any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but it is like the eloquence of one whom... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - Počet stránok 644
...He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly ou all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but it is like the eloquence of one whom... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - Počet stránok 808
...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...to leave off ; a continence which is practised by fewwriters, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - Počet stránok 530
...Maro, deliciae, decus et desiderium aevi sui." Fasti Oxon. ii. 209. Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : — ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small. . . . For this... | |
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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... 
