 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 ページ
...: 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...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 - 224 ページ
...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 - 834 ページ
...Virgil. 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...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 - 644 ページ
...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 - 808 ページ
...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...to leave off ; a continence which is practised by fewwriters, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 ページ
...all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so 30 he knows when to leave off; a continence which is practised...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 35 small. There was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 ページ
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 ページ
...is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all the sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he 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, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 ページ
...Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly Deservedly confined into this rock, Who hadst deserved...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 ページ
...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...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her. . . . The verse of... | |
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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... 
