 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1907 - 348 ページ
...• ' In the first place, as he (Chaucer) 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.' (Dryden's Preface to The Fables.} the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 ページ
...greatest English Poets. •Thomas Speght. 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... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Condell, John Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 634 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 of good sense, learn'd in all sciences, and therefore ""Plenty has made me poor."... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 272 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 of good sense ; learn'd in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects.... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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 of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 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 of good Sense ; learn'd in all Sciences ; and, therefore speaks properly on all... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 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 of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects;... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 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 of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects.... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1922 - 330 ページ
...Hear Dryden : 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; learn'd in all sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects.... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 ページ
...Penseroso. CHAP. 2] r 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 has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call... | |
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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... 
