 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 ページ
...acknowledged that " he cuts us all out, and the ancients too ; " he who held Chaucer " in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil," surely had no narrow conception of the poetic art. But apart from his breadth of view there are three... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 ページ
...Chaucer he is yet more explicit. "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 on all subjects.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 170 ページ
...English poet.] 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 on all subjects;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 148 ページ
...English poet.] 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 on all subjects;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 ページ
...other matters : " 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 on all subjects.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 ページ
...manufactures. 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 on all subjects;... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 ページ
...into current English. " As he is the father of English poetry," he says, "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 on all subjects."... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 ページ
...in particular. 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 ofgood sense ; learn'd in all 35 sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 ページ
...remarks on Chaucer— 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 ou all subjects.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 ページ
...sincere veneration for Chaucer — " 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" — has failed to reproduce the more delicate and subtle qualities of his model. Its splendour, its... | |
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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... 
