 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 ページ
...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...is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of ihe ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 ページ
...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...subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancient?,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 ページ
...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...subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 ページ
...perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all suhjects : as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practised hy few writers, and scarcely hy any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 520 ページ
...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...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Our account of his principal works must be brief. The Romaunt of the Rose is professedly a translation... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1838 - 542 ページ
...properly on all subjects ; as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave oft, a conti|| nence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." I Our account of his principal works must be brief. The Romaunt of the Rose is professedly a translation... | |
 | Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - 322 ページ
...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. As he knew what to say, BO he knows also where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 ページ
...hold in veneration as the father of English poetry: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to sat/, so he knew also ichen to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers. 2 We may... | |
 | 1845 - 842 ページ
...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...because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but swept like a drag-net great and small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 ページ
...; and therefore he speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so also he knows where to leave off ; a continence which is practised by...writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting the authors "of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the JEneid. The author of the Essay on the Understanding... | |
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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... 
