 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 ページ
...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 conceit which came in his way ; but swept, like a drag-net, great and small. There was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 ページ
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 ページ
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 ページ
...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 f is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 ページ
...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 f is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 ページ
...sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he also knows where to leave off; a continence, which is practised by...is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit that came in his way ; but swept, like a draga drag-net, great and small. There... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 ページ
...not only for the justness of the criticism, but because it contains a censure of Cowley. i " Chaucer is a perpetual fountain of good sense; \ learned in...properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he also knows where to leave off; a continence, which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 ページ
...he is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks propirly on all subjects : as he knew what to say, so he knows...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. There was... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 ページ
...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 f is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 ページ
...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 f is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
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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... 
